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dhpgetsit

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20. I have done exactly that. I know the procedure.

Reply to hedgehog (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 26, 2012, 10:58 AM

Nov 2012

You have to drive a bar into the ground and measure the level of gas in the ground at various places to try to determine the spread of underground gas.. We were supposed to probe no more than 18 inches and I had tape on my tool to mark that depth. Supposedly all the underground gas lines are supposed to be deeper than that, but in fact I hit gas lines on 2 occasions. When you do that, you are supposed to leave the bar in the pipe to hopefully plug the hole and of course get a repair crew on site immediately.

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