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Henrico's water main on Staples Mill Road dates to the 1950s, and had had emergency repairs completed on it many times in the 18 months before the outage. During these repairs, officials had been able to replace leaking valves and install new valves, better allowing them to close off sections of the pipe if necessary. [23]
October 5 – A ditching machine used in laying a water main hit an 8-inch natural gas pipeline in Sarasota, Florida. Nine people were injured in the ensuing explosion and fire. [82] October 26 – A 16-inch gas transmission pipeline near Checotah, Oklahoma exploded while it was being worked on, to repair a leak. Three of the repair crew died ...
October 18 – Vapors from a leaking butane pipeline at a refinery in Texas City, Texas spread out along a nearby highway, causing a number of cars to stall. The gas then exploded, killing 4 people, and seriously burning 17 others. [68] [69] November 9 – A pressure valve exploded during work on it, near Bald Knob, Arkansas. One worker was ...
January 24 – A leaking 2-inch natural gas main exploded in Houma, Louisiana, killing two gas company workers, one firefighter, injuring 28 others, and demolishing half a block of downtown buildings. The workers were attempting to repair the gas line. [4] [5] [6]
City officials said water was shut down in the immediate neighborhood as part of an effort to stanch the flow from a broken main that had been gushing a river into streets since Friday night ...
The gas leak was caused by gas being diverted into an older, defective gas main in the area. [62] April 29. In Edgewood, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh, a house was blown apart by an explosion of natural gas which leaked into the basement through a drain. One resident was killed and two others injured.
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