Comments on: Century Takes Step Toward Repairing Gas Leak Under Highway 29

By: CEM

CEM — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:36:05 +0000

What is the current status of this now??

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:30:24 +0000

34 or 35 psi on the line per the gas department. so less than a tenth the oomph of a 400 psi line

By: James

James — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:47:47 +0000

eab, I doubt Ricky would be willing to give money to this project. It’s in a small town….and a poor town. While I think poorer towns and individuals need help, I tend to believe he’d contribute money if it was in a more affluent area of Florida. Century needs to solve the problem…not the U.S. Government or even the State of Florida.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:40:30 +0000

The San Bruno, CA explosion was pretty severe — that was a 30 inch pipeline that was put in in 1956, and was carrying gas at close to 400 PSI.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_San_Bruno_pipeline_explosion

This Highway 29 pipe is a four inch line, according to the story. The story doesn’t say what pressure it runs at, but if it’s the same, I think the amount of damage it could do if it burst is about 2% of the San Bruno explosion. Still not a good thing, of course.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:05:27 +0000

They will have to repaire it after the EXPLOSION!

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:55:17 +0000

even bald people have hair, the body just pushes it out ere it gets very long.

By: eab

eab — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:02:36 +0000

David said:

I only suggest the experiment because I know it won’t. (You might loose a little hair, but it’ll grow back.) Not enough gas, not enough containment to build up pressure.

I said:

Man, am I glad to hear that! i lost my hair 10-15 years ago. Nice to know it’s gonna grow back. Err…when?

And then I said:

Gotta go with james. the federal government is broke. If locals need these types of fixes, we need to figure out how to finance it ourselves.Or…we could check with Ricky about helping out.

By: WORRIED RESIDENT

WORRIED RESIDENT — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:39:32 +0000

Thank y’all for the information. It puts my mind at ease for now.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:24:28 +0000

REGARDING:
“the blast will flatten buildings in all directions for quite a distance, and can travel through gas lines to other areas”

take a toy balloon.

fill it with natural gas.

tie it off.

take it outside and tie it to a limb or something.

set fire to a piece of news paper and hold the flame to the balloon. (hold your breath while doing so, lest you inhale any flame)

see if it blew up houses hundreds of feet away (and if it killed you in the process)

I only suggest the experiment because I know it won’t. (You might loose a little hair, but it’ll grow back.) Not enough gas, not enough containment to build up pressure.

If the leak is very small, it would be similar to your balloon. If it were very large, they would have found it by now.

By: Jane

Jane — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:15:00 +0000

I am surprised that the governmen, knowing they and the gas provider, can be sued, would allow this dangerous situation to go unresolved! You do NOT have to be close to a gas line when it explodes…the blast will flatten buildings in all directions for quite a distance, and can travel through gas lines to other areas! Put some preasure on the government to fix it!!!