California Natural Gas Pipeline Explosion Pipeline fix was planned — but never happened
California Natural Gas Pipeline Explosion
Pipeline fix was planned — but never happened
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. asked state regulators three years ago for permission to spend $4.87 million to replace a portion of the same natural gas pipeline that ruptured last week and set a San Bruno neighborhood on fire.
The 1.42-mile portion to be replaced ran beneath South San Francisco, a few miles north of the blast site. PG&E considered the segment a risk.
Then last year, PG&E proposed upgrading another stretch of the same pipeline, this time starting about 8 miles south of the blast site and running all the way to Milpitas, about 32 miles away. The work would cost about $13 million.
Neither project has come to fruition. The South San Francisco project was moved down the priority list and the money spent elsewhere, and the southern project is still pending approval from state regulators. And now some observers wonder if the utility missed a chance to spot flaws in the pipeline that could have contributed to the Sept. 9 explosion, which killed four people, left three missing and destroyed 37 homes.
“If they’d fixed the section they said they were going to fix, maybe they would have found something a few miles south — we don’t know,” said Mike Florio, senior staff attorney for The Utility Reform Network.
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