David Nebenzahl wrote:

On 9/11/2010 4:25 PM Han spake thus:

"A. Baum" wrote in newsan.2010.09.11.22.07.07@
50kilotons.net.not:

On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 21:40:08 +0000, Han wrote:

"A. Baum" wrote in
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Was the 54" main there when the allotment was created or installed
after?

The community dates from the 60s. I don't know who was first. I don't
think it matters at this moment.

Sure it matters. Maybe not to the explosion victims so much but rather
that you seemed to place PG&E at fault for placing the 54" 3 feet under
the community. Can't quote you exactly since you snipped that part out.

The only thing I heard/read was a 54" main gas line that was 3' underground
in a residential community.

Pretty sure that it is a 24" line. That's what I've been hearing from
the teevee nooz the last couple days here.

The pictures seem to show something in the 24" range. It also appears to
be a high pressure transmission line, not a distribution line.

I own some property that has one of those transmission lines crossing it
way back on the property. I heard that some years back it had a blowout
which never ignited, but did blow a 10' crater in the frozen ground (was
winter). They apparently traced the failure to a scrape by a backhoe
tooth when burying the pipeline years earlier.