lined with Gas company trucks and the alley behind our house is filled with another truck and about half a dozen gas company employees....and the gas to our house is off. Back in the Spring the city contracted with a company to replace all the 40-50 year old sewer lines in the alleys. First they had a company come out to locate and mark all the underground lines for gas, cable TV and Verizon FIOS. Those markings were done with orange flags and big orange letters on the concrete noting which line was where. The next step was for the concrete to be broken up and hauled away. And then came the actual digging up and replacing the old pipes with new. Our neighbors gas line was cut and her FIOS line cut. Because why? The front end loader had taken up the flags in the process of scooping up the chunks of concrete that had all those helpful markings on them. The step they are on now is digging down in the alley and building the form for the new alley. Next comes the pouring of concrete. Now mind you, no one had been sent out to remark the locations of the buried lines before they started this digging. So they were working directly behind our house this morning and out of curiosity Randy went out to see how it was going. He found them either shoveling in or shoveling out dirt from around the severed edges of the gas line that goes to our house. He came in and called the gas company (which the construction company had not done) to report the problem. A gas company guy arrived about 10 minutes later and found all the equipment and men gone from the alley and there is no sight or sound of them working on any other of the alleys in the neighborhood....gas spewing into the air. Randy went back out and recorded a video on his iPhone of the leak complete with the sound of gassing hissing out of the pipes. So 5 trucks and lots of men arrived and they are repairing the line and reburying it a lot further down to prevent this from happening again. And will have their own guy mark the locations of the gas line this time. And I am pretty sure that someone from the gas company has been in touch with the construction company about how this situation was handled. Our service should be restored in a couple of hours.
Ohh! Bet some ones rear-end gets chewed out over that! I hope your gas gets turned back on soon and there's no more miss-haps.
Good for you and Randy getting things moving with the gas leak. I hope the construction company got a real wigging over their failure to report it. Now, hopefully, you'll have your gas back on and there won't be any further problems with your supply.
Gas is back on, water heater and gas cooking stove are working again......dang it, that means I have to cook supper tonight afterall. I would love to be a fly on the wall of the constructions managers office to hear the rest of what happened. The first gas company guy who got here saw one of the construction company trucks down the street with a supervisory type person sitting in it and as he approached the vehicle to talk to the guy, he zoomed off down the street.
Glad your service wasn't interrupted for long, but it must have been worrisome for you with gas hissing and broken lines! We went all-electric when we replaced our heating and air conditioning units. We had gas heat, but after seeing the gas company lay a line, dig it up, re-lay the line, and then come out about two months later to repair it, we lost confidence in gas and decided to change.
Glad they fixed it right away. And shame on the workers not calling-just takes a spark.I called 800 Before You Dig. When putting bedroom on. They marked rural water and telephone. First thing guy did-cut telephone. My GAS is LP tank on other side
I helped replace all of the sewer system in Weiser Idaho 22 years ago. We were working down an alley way and digging 10 feet down to the sewer lines and had a four inch gas main off to the side of our trench try falling into the trench. We finally tied a heavy strap to it and ran it around a telephone pole and continued working. Our boss was having trouble with his sciatic nerve and was on some major pain meds and kept falling asleep while running the backhoe..... That was a rather nerve wracking job... One guy stayed up out of the trench at all times with a shovel, when Ron would start to nod off he would slam the shovel into the cab of the hoe as hard as he could.... lol.... That woke Ron up pretty well.... We managed to do that entire lie without an incident, but boy it was spooky a few times.
