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New America's aging pipeline infrastructure

A gas pipeline in Brooke County, West Virginia exploded into a ball of flames on Monday morning, marking the fourth major mishap at a U.S. pipeline this month.

No one was hurt in the explosion, but residents told the local WTRF 7 news station that they could see a massive fireball shooting hundreds of feet into the air. An emergency dispatcher reportedly told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that the flames had melted the siding off one home and damaged at least one power line. The gas pipeline is owned by Houston, Texas-based The Enterprise Products, L.P., which said Monday evening that it is investigating the cause of the explosion.

The West Virginia explosion is the fourth in a string of news-making pipeline incidents this month. Earlier this month, a gas pipeline in Mississippi operated by GulfSouth Pipeline exploded, rattling residents’ windows and causing a smoke plume large enough to register on National Weather Service radar screens. On Jan. 17, a pipeline owned by Bridger Pipeline LLC in Montana spilled up to 50,000 gallons of crude oil into the Yellowstone River, a spill that left thousands of Montanans without drinkable tap water. Just a few days later, on Jan. 22, it was discovered that 3 million gallons of saltwater drilling waste had spilled from a North Dakota pipeline earlier in the month. That spill was widely deemed the state’s largest contaminant release into the environment since the North Dakota oil boom began.



http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/01/27/3615805/west-virginia-gas-pipeline-explosion/




Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous.
- - - Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" 1897
New Perhaps we are approaching Critical Mass? (that which awakens the snoring.)
New And it's not just oil pipelines
We really need to allocate significant funds for all infrastructure.

Here's one project that's underway; 50 years (1970-2020) and very expensive.


http://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/building-water-tunnel-no-3



" “See this?” he asked me. “These are the valves that control the flower of water.”

“They’re hundreds of feet underground,” another sandhog said.

The valves were designed, Ryan said, to open and close guillotine-like gates inside the cylindrical tunnels, stopping the flow of water. But they had become so brittle with age that they were no longer operable. “They’re afraid if they try to shut the valves they won’t be able to turn ’em back on,”...
New Reminds me of Tokyo's flood control system.
Huge storm-water diversion system that is almost entirely underground and duplicates much of Tokyo's old water-courses.

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/4112766.htm

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     America's aging pipeline infrastructure - (lincoln) - (3)
         Perhaps we are approaching Critical Mass? (that which awakens the snoring.) -NT - (Ashton)
         And it's not just oil pipelines - (dmcarls) - (1)
             Reminds me of Tokyo's flood control system. - (static)

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