Call before you dig!

[woodlandfarms]

You got me thinking about what I would find in google..

For $425 - Rextag Strategies Pipeline Mapping Products and Services for the Energy Industry


Too much info for a layman like me - EIA - Natural Gas Pipeline Network - Transporting Natural Gas in the United States

 

[irwin]

There sure are a lot of pipelines in the good ole USA. Here's a link to a map with the pipelines drawn.
http://northeastgas.org/pdf/nngips_0109.pdf

A good friend, a welder, worked for years off and on welding gasline pipe in New england, he had to retest after each layoff to get back on the crew. The testing was harder than the actual work.

My last house had the Algonquin gas pipeline running right through the property. I use to joke about digging down and tapping into it for some free heat. I'm too honest and too ignorant to do anything like that, but who knows what some people are capable of..if you have a gasline running through your property I think you'd know exactly where it is..I sure knew..

 

[Redneck in training]

There sure are a lot of pipelines in the good ole USA. Here's a link to a map with the pipelines drawn.
http://northeastgas.org/pdf/nngips_0109.pdf

A good friend, a welder, worked for years off and on welding gasline pipe in New england, he had to retest after each layoff to get back on the crew. The testing was harder than the actual work.

My last house had the Algonquin gas pipeline running right through the property. I use to joke about digging down and tapping into it for some free heat. I'm too honest and too ignorant to do anything like that, but who knows what some people are capable of..if you have a gasline running through your property I think you'd know exactly where it is..I sure knew..

Hot tap is always a bad idea.
It will be detected by the "pig" they send once a while trough the pipeline and there is a big chance that the pipe will blow up when drilled.
We have four pipelines running across our property.

 

[tallyho8]

No pipelines but we have a powerline run through our property and we can easily tap it for lights. All we have to do is stand under it and hold an 8' flourescent light bulb straight up and it lights.

 

[Gittyup]

Even calling is no guarantee. I called. They marked. I drilled ten feet from their mark. Went straight through a main power line. Luckily no one was hurt. But took out the neighborhood for the good part of a day.

I don't trust those idiots at Miss Utility!

 

[JayDavis]

Kinda scares the crap out of me. We have a huge pipeline R.O.W. a mile from our house. There was initially one 48" line but a few months ago, they laid another 48" line parallel to it about 50ft away. Now, they are putting in another 36" line parallel to them and have plans for at least one more. We also have a Kinder Morgan compressor station 2 miles away, Talk about loud when it starts up.....

 

[Gary Fowler]

I wouldnt be too concerned about hitting a pipeline with normal farming operations, but water lines and phone lines are a joke when it comes to bury depth . I have seen phone lines literally on top of the ground. The phone trunkline behind my house is less than 18" deep and the line to my house was only about 2" under the dirt. I cut it once planting a flower with a shovel. Just a couple of years ago, I had to replace the power line feed to my house because a contractor who built the house next door cut the insulation on my electrical feed when he was trenching in the feed to the house next door and he knew the location since he was tieing into the same junction box. My house was not occupied at the time, so it went unnoticed for several months which gave it time to corrode and eat away at the wires. Luckily I managed to track down the builder and he replaced my electric feed at his cost since my estimate was $6K for this work. 1/2 the house was powered up ok but the other half was just getting about 60 volts, the rest was going to ground. Since this happened in Dec. it was a real pain to not have any heat at that time and it took about a week to get it temporarily fixed by the power company and over a month for the contractor to finish up his portion and coordinate with HL&P to come shut off the power to make the tie in to the meter with the new lines.