LTLFTcomposite said:
http://money.cnn.com/2016/11/01/news/colonial-pipeline-fire-gas-prices/index.html
Colonial says 10/31/16 10:45 pm CDT - "The incident location is several miles from the site of a Sept. 9 spill in Shelby County. " What Direction??
The Sept 9 incident is approx 1.5 miles from Helena Residential outer line
Mayor of Helena Says the explosion was 1 mile away from the residential area.
Both pipelines are currently shut down or have not been updated on the Colonial Pipeline Helena Response page -
https://helena.colonialresponse.com/.
News on location is "spotty" at best. Another roller coaster ride for the Eastern Seaboard - not just the South East if both pipelines are shutdown - Line 2 came back online at 11:00 pm Monday Night CDT - per Colonial statement:
"Line 1, Colonial’s gasoline line, remains shut down. At this time, we anticipate Line 1 remaining down for the remainder of this week. Line 2, which transports diesel, jet fuel and other distillates, was restarted at approximately 11:00 PM CDT on October 31."
I think this is the spot from a Fixed wing Forestry Service Airplane photo - 1895 River Road Helena AL 35080
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.2040728,-87.0070952,203m/data=!3m1!1e3
This puts it 5.5 miles upstream (West South West) on the pipeline leak Sept 9. If I correlated the aerial photo correctly? The Cahaba River is between the Explosion and Sept 9 leak.
In a statement released Oct. 31, Colonial Pipeline said the contractors,
who were hired to drain the line, "experienced an incident when the trackhoe it was using hit the line. I cant imagine hiring another company to drain your own pipeline??
Previous Colonial Pipeline statement: "In a statement released earlier this month, Colonial Pipeline noted its system currently was operating at normal capacity, adding, “Between late October and mid-November,
Colonial will be performing system integrity work to remove the temporary bypass in Alabama and restore Line 1 to service.” -
Maybe they forgot we are contracting that out?
In Chicago we have Nicor natural gas - I call Nicor if I smell natural gas and Nicor decides to send a contractor to investigate or remedy??
Sounds like some
serious Oversight is needed in the pipeline industry. There should be armed guards on this pipeline that has 500 plus feet out of the ground, pumping massive quantities of petroleum mission critical product. Any changes to this "hobbled" pipe system should be monitored with Colonial Pipeline people within 50 miles of the original incident with stepped up on-site presence on direct changes. A certified Colonial pipeline engineer should be at all change locations that directly affect outcome of the Sept 9 incident and accompanied by an armed guard. With the Cahaba River (public water source for Birmingham) over the pipe, where are the State certified engineers/officials that should be onsite trying to "drain the line" next to a super important river?