CBS2 Investigates: Experts Say Decaying Gas Lines Are A Ticking Time Bomb Below City Streets
From the city to the suburbs, thousands of miles of some of the country’s oldest and decaying gas mains lay just below the surface of our streets.
As CBS2’s Dick Brennan reported, experts said the consequences could be dangerous or devastating.
In the early 20th century, there were new roads, rails, and an underground system delivered gas to buildings around New York.
More than 100 years later the landscape has drastically changed — but some of those exact same mains are still delivering our gas today.
“That infrastructure is way past its service life, which is dangerous,” natural gas expert Mark McDonald said.
McDonald, who investigates gas explosions, said aging mains like the ones we have in the northeast are at greater risk for cracks and ultimately leaks.
He pointed to a string of accidents across the country, the largest of which happened in Northern California in 2010, it killed nine people and destroyed property.
“Her house was at the epicenter where the gas line exploded,” Kimberly Archie said.
Archie’s best friend’s home was destroyed in the blast.
Her friend’s loss inspired Archie, a documentary maker, to investigate and chronicle gas explosion cases.
“You can have a ticking time bomb under your house and you don’t even know it,” Archie said.
A Con Edison spokesperson told CBS2 that since 2014 the company has been replacing old mains at a rate of 65 miles per year, a number that is expected to increase to 100 miles in the future.
PSEG said it too has been prudently replacing old mains and will triple its rate of replacement to 510 miles this year.
Adam Forman with the non-profit group Center For Urban Future said the new lines have decreased leaks by 30 percent, but many neighborhoods may still be vulnerable.
“It’s the oldest parts, so northern Manhattan, the Bronx,” Forman said.
Both PSEG and Con Edison said they’re doing more to check for leaks.
“It essentially would involve having a specialized truck drive down city streets. It’s not a big ordeal, and it will identify gas leaks just by driving over the main,” McDonald said.
Con Ed said it increased these surveys from once a year to thirteen times a year. Critics said the number should be even higher.
You may also want to consider installing a gas detector in your home.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/01/08/new-york-gas-main/
Eye Openings
Perhaps this Year of Our Lord 2016 will bring us more than just broken New Year’s Resolutions.
1. Muslims. The Swedes are pulling in their “welcome” mat:
2. “Black Lives Matter” Large cities have borne the brunt of this outlaw gang’s depredations. That’s no coincidence, as most of America’s large cities suffer under Democrat administrations. However, the Democrats may have had enough:
3. Black Racists. White Americans may have had enough:
4. Militant Homosexuals. This unmasks the true agenda of the Sodomite Army:
5. What Does It All Mean? As we can see from the citations above, not only are those groups determined to secure group privileges becoming steadily more demanding and militant; persons outside those groups are becoming more aware of the injustice of what they seek. Even prominent Democrats will occasionally allow that some group is asking for far more than its due. The Era of the Group hasn’t ended yet, but there are some hopeful signs, both above and in the day-to-day exchanges of views among ordinary Americans. There’s a sense of resistance rising – of a renewed determination among the law-abiding to assert American principles and demand that they be honored...and when necessary, enforced. Is the trend definite and positive? Unclear...but the fog of self-deception normal people have wrapped around themselves about the agendas of activist groups, including the groups mentioned above, might just be lifting. We shall see.
1. Muslims. The Swedes are pulling in their “welcome” mat:
...after taking in more asylum seekers per capita than any other nation in Europe, Sweden’s welcome mat now lies in tatters. Overwhelmed by the human tide of 2015, the center-left government is deploying extraordinary new border controls and slashing benefits in an unmistakable signal to refugees contemplating the long trek to Sweden in the new year: Stay out. “We’re willing to do more than anyone else,” said Swedish Migration Minister Morgan Johansson. “But even we have our limits.” Those limits can be readily seen in a tent camp where dozens of migrants are bedding down in the frigid Nordic winter and at the train station where many new arrivals are turned back within minutes of setting foot on Swedish soil.If Sweden, that most tolerant of the nations of the Old World – tolerant of everything except individual freedom, that is – can see the writing on the wall, can the rest of Europe be far behind?
2. “Black Lives Matter” Large cities have borne the brunt of this outlaw gang’s depredations. That’s no coincidence, as most of America’s large cities suffer under Democrat administrations. However, the Democrats may have had enough:
Chicago’s Mayor Rahm Emanuel is starting to feel the bite of the political machine he spent decades protecting as more calls come for his resignation. When poverty pimp Al Sharpton calls for you to resign, you know it’s time to leave your vacation in Cuba and handle the powder keg set to explode in your city. Maybe Emanuel could pick up a few pointers from Fidel Castro on how to handle protesters before returning to the Windy City.... Rahm Emanuel isn’t cutting his vacation short to address the concerns of Chicago citizens. He is returning to Chicago to discipline his army for speaking up against him. Specifically, Al Sharpton. I predict those that have paid patronage to the Chicago machine will get Al Sharpton served on a political platter, the equivalent of finding a horse head in your bed.A rift between the Democrat Party and black racialist activists would badly wound Democrats’ electoral prospects in 2016. The Negro vote has been a critical component of the Left’s coalition for four decades at least. Without it, the Democrats’ large deficits among whites and married women would finally outweigh their successes at harnessing identity-group politics.
3. Black Racists. White Americans may have had enough:
Suspiciously overlooked in the disgusting "Dear white America" was the fact that charges of racism were leveled in the same pages as acknowledgements of black crime. Who would dare mention robbers and then demand indifference to robbery? Who has the audacity to bring up rapists and then pretend that raping is irrelevant? If there's a problem with black crime, then let's deal with the crime before dealing with our disgust for criminals. If there's a problem with character, then let men rise in our estimation before demanding that we re-estimate them. To ask the other way around isn't to ask for peace; essentially, it is a covert declaration of war. It holds forth an olive branch in one hand while hiding a dagger in the other. The undeniable gist of the piece in the New York Times was that black people cannot any longer live in black society and are jealous of the stability, success, and harmony of white businesses and neighborhoods. It was a cry for inclusion masked in the unsociable language of the excluded.Ann Coulter wrote in Mugged that the acquittal of O.J. Simpson was a turning point for white Americans’ attitudes about race. After a majority-black jury refused to convict Simpson despite overwhelming circumstantial evidence, millions of whites were finally moved to say “Enough. No further consideration on account of race!” That caused black race hustlers to bear down for a Battle-of-the-Bulge-like push. However, if the reactions to that scrofulous letter are any indication, the push has fizzled and the bills are about to come due.
4. Militant Homosexuals. This unmasks the true agenda of the Sodomite Army:
For over the past decade, [Dr. Paul] Church has expressed concern to his colleagues about [Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s] promotion of homosexual events. He has commented both via email and on the hospital’s internal portal that it is improper to promote lifestyles that are contrary to the goals of the healthcare community, and has been met with allegations that his comments constitute “discrimination and harassment” and are “offensive to BIDMC staff.” “The evidence is irrefutable that behaviors common within the homosexual community are unhealthy and high risk for a host of serious medical consequences, including STD’s, HIV and AIDS, anal cancer, hepatitis, parasitic intestinal infections, and psychiatric disorders,” Church wrote on the portal on one occasion.... In September 2014, a formal investigation was launched against Church, and findings were turned over to a 25-member Medical Executive Committee for consideration. In March, the committee decided to expel Church for his “unsolicited views about homosexuality that were offensive to BIDMC Staff” and for violating the hospital’s discrimination policy.I’ve written about the health consequences of homosexual sodomy myself. I’ve made no secret of it – and it never caused me the slightest fear for my occupation, my reputation, or the esteem of my friends and neighbors. Dr. Church has been grievously wronged. Worse, the very people who most need to listen to and act on his message are the ones who’ve wronged him. We should watch – and hope – for a recoil against this odious action.
5. What Does It All Mean? As we can see from the citations above, not only are those groups determined to secure group privileges becoming steadily more demanding and militant; persons outside those groups are becoming more aware of the injustice of what they seek. Even prominent Democrats will occasionally allow that some group is asking for far more than its due. The Era of the Group hasn’t ended yet, but there are some hopeful signs, both above and in the day-to-day exchanges of views among ordinary Americans. There’s a sense of resistance rising – of a renewed determination among the law-abiding to assert American principles and demand that they be honored...and when necessary, enforced. Is the trend definite and positive? Unclear...but the fog of self-deception normal people have wrapped around themselves about the agendas of activist groups, including the groups mentioned above, might just be lifting. We shall see.
http://bastionofliberty.blogspot.com/2016/01/eye-openings.html
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