Gotta relate a funny tale related to this subject. Some years ago I
lived in an apartment above an upholstery business in Fort Smith,
Arkansas, then a small city of around 70,000. I stepped out my front
door one day, and smelled natural gas. The meter was located between our
building and the adjacent one, so I suspected the leak was around it. I
called the gas company, and they checked around but could not locate any
specific leak....
Several hours later, I'm watching the evening news, and hear that a
worker at a newly drilled gas well (about a mile away) apparently had
dropped a glass bottle of mercaptan, the chemical usually added to
provide the odor for natural gas. Strong stuff! As a result, the company
had received something like 500 phone calls reporting leaks, including
mine. Sure would have caused a run on this web site!
Cheers,
-Malcolm
On 3/22/2012 4:10 PM, Reed Underwood wrote:
Geowankers,
Some researchers at Boston University (including me) are trying to get people
(everywhere) to report natural gas leaks (after they've been reported to the
*proper* authorities):
http://smellsomething.org
The site's nothing fancy, but, you know...if you smell something...say
something.
Cheers,
Reed
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