— Construction workers hit lines

; By ALEX HAMILTON
TWO MORE natural gas
leaks, evacuations and in-
vesligatious Were underway
Thursday, after two ex-
cavators: working on sepa-
‘rate’ city projects severed
gas lines on Sparks Street
and Kalum Street,

A worker for Spring Creck
Aggregates. Ltd hit a two-
inch walural gas mainline
with his backhoe on Sparks
Street near Munthe Avenue
at approximately 10:30 a.m.
This was about an hour after
another gas Icak from a 1.25
inch pipe was reported at
about’ 9 am. on Kalum
Street.

Pacific Northern Gas

Ron Vanderlee

(PNG) had both gas lines”

shut off by 11:15 p.m.
According to PNG’s west-
er regional manager, Ron
Vanderlee, the ratio of gas
fo . air never reached
dangerous Icvels at either

site, ;

The ratio didn’t go above
1.5 per cent, and in order for
gas to ignite, the air to gas
ralio would have to be five
to 15 per cent.

“Because it was a nice
warm day, the gas went
straight up and dissipated
into the atmosphere right
away,’ he said.

According city director of
engineering Stew
Christensen, three gas leaks
in one month is very un-
usual,

“What strikes me is that
two happened on one day,”’
said Christensen.

Both contractors had
called BCICALL, which is
a toll-free service that does
a free line location check for
companies to let them know

what pipelines are buried

below digging sites.

Somehow the lines that a
PNG employee drew on the
ground marking where the
lines were, weren't followed
correctly.

“Nothing was done wrong
in Pacific Northern Gas
drawing the lines,’’ said
Vanderlee. ‘“Where we
drew the lines was correct.’’

Currently, PNG and the
Workman’s Compensation
Board are looking into the
investigation.

“We haven't got to the
bottom of what’s happening
here,” said Vanderlee.

Because there have been
three gas leaks caused by
excavators in the past
month, Vanderlee said he
wants to slart an education
program for contraclors to
teach them how to dig prop-
erly alongside lines,

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SHUTTING IT DOWN: Scott Skaalrud, a Pacific
Northem Gas employee, cold crimps the gas line

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