Frack Check WV » landslide https://www.frackcheckwv.net Just another WordPress site Wed, 20 Mar 2024 22:41:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Natural Gas Line Ruptures in Landslide, Public at Risk https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2017/07/03/natural-gas-line-ruptures-in-landslide-public-at-risk/ https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2017/07/03/natural-gas-line-ruptures-in-landslide-public-at-risk/#comments Mon, 03 Jul 2017 18:32:45 +0000 Duane Nichols http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=20338

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Gas line ruptured at Finleyville Airport south of Pittsburgh

From an Article by Scott Beveredge, Washington PA Observer-Reporter, June 30, 2017

FINLEYVILLE – A landslide ruptured a natural gas pipeline Thursday night at Finleyville Airport, a utility that serves customers as far away as Burgettstown and Beaver County.

Peoples Gas was able to detour natural gas from other service areas to continue serving most of its customers in the region until repairs were completed and the 12-inch line was re-pressurized about 7 a.m. Friday, company spokesman Barry Kukovich said.

“They got in there and could hear the ground moving in the darkness,” Kukovich said. “A large section of earth slid laterally. It’s a major gas line.”

Service was temporarily disrupted to about 40 houses in the Stonebridge Drive area off Route 88, close to the airport on Airport Road in Union Township, he said.

A Union Electric Steel operation in the region also was asked to curtail its natural gas draw while the repairs were being made, Kukovich said. There were no reports of disruption of traffic to and from the privately owned airport. It was not immediately known what caused the landslide.

The rupture was reported at 10:30 p.m. Thursday. Township Supervisor Larry Spahr said the rupture happened at the end of the airport runway.

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Anti-Pipeline Hikers Celebrate End of Route with Church Service

From WVIR (NBC), News 29, Charlottesville, Virginia, July 2, 2017

BUCKINGHAM COUNTY, Va. (WVIR) – Anti-pipeline walkers of “Walk the Line” in Buckingham County, Virginia, show up in church.

Sunday, anti-pipeline hikers reached the end of the line on their two-week trek following the path of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline across the Shenandoah Valley and central Virginia.

The hikers celebrated the completion of their travels by joining supporters for a special Sunday service at Union Hill Baptist Church in Buckingham County.

>>> Kirk A Bowers, PE, Virginia Chapter, Sierra Club,

Pipelines Program Coordinator, 106 George Rogers Road,

Charlottesville, VA 22911

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Pipeline ROW Landslide

Gas & Liquid Pipeline Spill of Volatile Organics

From the Article by Casey Junkins, Wheeling Intelligencer, August 21, 2013

LITTLETON – West Virginia environmental regulators on Tuesday cited MarkWest Energy for “conditions not allowable in the waters of the state” following a natural gas liquids spill from one of MarkWest’s pipelines in northern Wetzel County. (Photo provided by Ed Wade.)

The spill occurred last week following a landslide. It has led to a fishkill in Rocky Run, a tributary of Fish Creek, West Virginia Division of Natural Resources District 1 Fishery Biologist Frank Jernejcic said.  Minnows, smallmouth bass and other species of fish died from the spill, Jernejcic said.

“We never will know exactly how many were killed,” he said, noting the DNR will use the wildlife composition of a comparable “reference stream” to estimate the number of dead fish.

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“It is a fairly small stream,” he added. “The fish kill was limited to Rocky Run.”

State Department of Environmental Protection spokeswoman Kathy Cosco said officials remain unable to closely examine the Rocky Run area where the liquid was released, as the “vapors are keeping us from getting close.” 

Cosco said it appears a landslide affected the pipeline, which then ruptured. She said the spill involved a “liquid gas” and that many natural gas liquids – propane, ethane, butane, pentanes and others – can vaporize when their liquid forms come in contact with water.

Cosco said the hillside remains unstable, in addition to the vapors in the area. She said she was not sure if this was the first time MarkWest received a citation from the WV-DEP.

Cosco said she believed one of the company’s workers reported the spill by calling the “spill line.” She said anyone needing to report a spill related to the natural gas industry in West Virginia should call 800-642-3074.

Residents of the Rocky Run area have been concerned about potential hazards from the pipeline break.

(Note:  Such events that can release pollutants should be monitored so that accurate concentrations in the area can be recorded and reported to the public.  The public health is at risk and should be monitored, if not protected. These vapors are heavier than air and would tend to drift and settle into valleys and hollows, even those where homes or workplaces are located.   DGN)

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