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Consumers Energy replacing 149 miles of aging natural gas pipes across Michigan

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LANSING, Mich. (WNEM) — Consumers Energy is making major upgrades to its natural gas system in effort to make service more reliable.

Crews are replacing 149 miles of older cast iron and steel pipe, some of it nearly 100-years-old.

Over six hundred employees and contractors are on the job, working in communities from southeast Michigan to the Bay Region, Lansing, Kalamazoo and Alma.

The company said the work is part of a long-term natural gas delivery plan to keep service safe and reliable for 1.8 million customers, costing the typical household about $3 a day.

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