PG&E Venting - Edgewood Road - Oct 5th

10/4/2012

Update # 9 - PG&E Natural Gas Venting - Edgewood Road - Oct. 5th

Project Update
PG&E has informed the City of San Carlos that the venting of their Natural Gas lines on the afternoon of Monday, October 1st was succcessful.

Preparation for Safety Enhancement Projects
The PG&E venting on Monday cleared a large portion of the L-101 natural gas line in preparation for multiple pipeline safety enhancement projects that PG&E has planned from Woodside to Stanford.

On the afternoon of Friday, October 5th, PG&E will be clearing 25 additional miles of pipeline in preparation for these safety enhancement projects.

Work on Friday, October 5th
The PG&E venting on Friday will be at the same location as Monday – west of I-280, just north of Edgewood Road.

The main release is scheduled to begin between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. or after 6:30 p.m. so as to avoid the commute traffic time. It is expected to take between 2 and 3 hours.

In order to clear the lines completely of natural gas PG&E will be running air movers at several locations after the official venting.

Venting
Depending on the location of gas venting and weather patterns, there may be a smell of natural gas.  PG&E wants to assure customers that this situation is safe.  As part of our normal protocol, we have and will continue to notify the appropriate public safety agencies, businesses and residents of this work. 

Notification
PG&E is working to avoid the impacts that were experienced on the September 26th.  Should PG&E experience delays as they did on September 26th, they will conduct additional proactive outreach.  This will include utilizing SMC Alert to inform customers as well as sending out robo-calls to over 30,000 customers. 

PG&E does not expect that many customers to be impacted by noise and odor, but they are acting out of an abundance of caution.

For More Information
Safety is PG&E's top priority and while this is planned work, they encourage any resident who has questions or concerns about the smell of gas to call 24 hours a day at 1-800-743-5000 or call 9-1-1 immediately. 

Upcoming PG&E Natural Gas Line Work
Below is a summary of the work that will be performed.


1.  Natural Gas Venting - Edgewood Road
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Scheduled Date: Friday, 10/05/12
Approximate Start Time: 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. or after 6:30 p.m.
Approximate Duration: 2 to 3 hours
Work Location:  Edgewood Valve Lot (west of I-280 and north of Edgewood Road)
Work to be completed:  Venting of Natural Gas to Atmosphere


2.  Line clearing operations include the following work on 10/5 to 10/6
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• Sand Hill Road and Branner Drive, Menlo Park – will have compressors and air movers operating and potential gas odor from clearing the gas from the line on 10/5 between 3 pm – 9 pm.
• Alpine Road and Junipero Serra Boulevard in Stanford/Menlo Park – we will have a brief release that will have noise and potential gas odor to purge the air out of the line and obtain 100% gas in the line.  This will be on 10/6 in the evening (time could vary, depending on the progress of our construction work).