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CBS2 Investigates: Experts Say Decaying Gas Lines Are A Ticking Time Bomb Below City Streets

 
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CBS2 Investigates: Experts Say Decaying Gas Lines Are A Ticking Time Bomb Below City Streets
From the city to the suburbs, thousands of miles of some of the country’s oldest and decaying gas mains lay just below the surface of our streets.

As CBS2’s Dick Brennan reported, experts said the consequences could be dangerous or devastating.

In the early 20th century, there were new roads, rails, and an underground system delivered gas to buildings around New York.

More than 100 years later the landscape has drastically changed — but some of those exact same mains are still delivering our gas today.

“That infrastructure is way past its service life, which is dangerous,” natural gas expert Mark McDonald said.

McDonald, who investigates gas explosions, said aging mains like the ones we have in the northeast are at greater risk for cracks and ultimately leaks.

He pointed to a string of accidents across the country, the largest of which happened in Northern California in 2010, it killed nine people and destroyed property.

“Her house was at the epicenter where the gas line exploded,” Kimberly Archie said.

Archie’s best friend’s home was destroyed in the blast.

Her friend’s loss inspired Archie, a documentary maker, to investigate and chronicle gas explosion cases.

“You can have a ticking time bomb under your house and you don’t even know it,” Archie said.

More at:
[link to newyork.cbslocal.com]

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