Forest Brown <[email protected]> wrote: Over the last several years I’ve smelled a strong gas leak on Sandy Pond Rd > near DeCordova. I’ve made several calls to the gas company and one to > police/fire, and a few e mails to Mother’s Out Front I have never made any > headway. Is anyone else aware of this issue and been able to speak to > anyone about addressing it?
As someone who had a serious* gas leak in the front yard for years (possibly decades), my experience: the gas company has a very, very long list of leaks to repair, and they prioritize based on the severity of the leak and the difficulty (cost) of repair. It may take a long time for any given leak to get to the top of the list. Here's a map of leaks: https://heet.org/gas-leaks/gas-leak-maps/ In our case, when the leak was eventually repaired, it was literally a 24-hour non-stop job involving three different shifts of gas company workers, the place lit up like Alcatraz at night, and heavy equipment digging up the road. And within a year, it was all for naught, because they replaced the entire gas line on our road. (*It was a leaky valve: you could hear the leak bubbling and if you put dish detergent down the valve access, it would bubble up and make foam. Fun!) One no-open-flames-please resident's view, -andy https://payne.org/lt-disclaimer
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