AUSTIN -- For the first time we're getting a look at where potentially dangerous cast iron gas pipes are located and the plan to remove them. It was a cast iron pipe that triggered a gas explosion in ...
That morning, an Austin father died in his home when a gas leak sparked an explosion. Since then, the KVUE Defenders uncovered the same type of aging cast iron pipe leading to his home sits ...
When Darryle Brown woke up in the dark hours of an early December morning, he heard an explosion. Suddenly, Brown was on fire and trapped underneath an eight-inch-thick concrete slab – the floor of ...
CHICAGO (AP) — Peoples Gas says it plans to retire and remove the oldest gas pipe in the city of Chicago on Friday. The utility company says the 20-inch, cast-iron gas main has delivered natural gas ...
About every other day the past decade, a gas leak in the United States has destroyed property, hurt someone or killed someone, a USA TODAY Network investigation finds. The most destructive blasts have ...
Last week Con Edison pulled an ancient artifact from under an upper Manhattan street — a crusty old cast-iron gas main installed in 1911 when America had just 46 states and William Howard Taft was ...
A significant milestone in public safety has been achieved by Columbia Gas of Virginia with the elimination of the final segment of cast iron pipe from the company’s more than 5,000-mile underground ...
The cast iron natural gas main that served Richard Williams' turn-of-the-century home in Shreveport was as old as the house itself: It was built during the city's first gas-fueled boom in 1911. When ...
WEBVTT LOOK, AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOU. REPORTER: OUT WITH THE CAST-IRON, IN THE WITH PLASTIC. METROPOLITAN UTILITIES DISTRICT IS WORKING FASTER THAN EVER, TAKING OUT THESE GAS MAINS FROM AS FAR BACK ...
While Norwich Public Utilities General Manager Chris LaRose is glad to receive any money from the government, he was ecstatic that it it’s enough to complete a large project in the city. “We would’ve ...