Odor of natural gas in Laconia linked to too much odor in gas main, utility says Updated: 10:36 PM EDT Jun 16, 2021
Liberty Utilities says there s no active gas leak Share Updated: 10:36 PM EDT Jun 16, 2021
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Show Transcript LEAKS STARTED AROUND 2 AND KEPT COMING IN WHEN PEOP LE GOT HOME FROM WO. RK TS REPORTS SOFUSPECTED GAS LEAKS KEEPING LACONIA S FIRE DEPARTMENT BUSY THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVTERNOON AND INTO THE ENING. LACONIA FIRE SAYS THE FIRST CALL OF A POSSIBLE GAS LEAK CAME IN AROUND 2PM FROM A NURSING HOME ON COT UR STREET, THEN THE LACONIA POLICE DEPARTMENT, CONCORD HOSPITAL IN LACONIA AND AROUND 30 OTHER BUILDINGS AND HOMES. BUT THEY DID FIND THE SMELL OF GAS..HE.T REASON?. LIBERTY UTILITIES SAYS THEY WERE INSTALLING A NEW GAS MAIN ON LACONIA ROAD AND PRE-TREATED THE MAIN WITH TOO MUCH OF THE CHEMIC, AL MERCAPTAN, WHICH IS USED TO ALERT PEOPLE TO GAS LEAKS. 16 BOTH THE UTILITY COMPANY AND THE FIRE DEPARTMENT SAY T
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FALL RIVER Sometimes you’ve got to dig it to make it better.
Such is the scenario for Liberty Utilities, which since April has been digging up Fall River streets to replace 18 miles of low-pressure “leak-prone” distribution pipelines, or “mains,” with new high-pressure, polyethylene plastic tubing.
The subsidiary of Canada-based Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp., whose legal name is New England Natural Gas Company, for a third year in a row has contracted Ferreira Construction Company of New Jersey to install the new polyethylene gas mains.
The street work has led to an unavoidable series of traffic detours as workers dig into streets to install 40-foot lengths of so-called sticks of yellow-striped, black polyethylene piping.