Damaged main off Highway 41 leaves hundreds without natural gas - 14 News WFIE Evansville
Damaged main off Highway 41 leaves hundreds without natural gas
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) - Just off of Highway 41, a portion of St. George Road in Evansville was shut down for hours after CenterPoint officials confirmed a natural gas main was damaged.
They say a third party hit the line at approximately 11 A.M., and while there were no evacuations, there were hundreds of customers without gas.
As of 3 P.M., CenterPoint Corporate Communications Director Alyssia Oshodi says approximately 225 customers were without natural gas, with repairs still a few hours from being complete.
The rest of the statement reads:
“Repairs will take another couple of hours, and once complete and service is restored, our crews will begin relights. This will take some time as we will need to enter customers’ homes. Crews will work into the night to complete as many relights as possible.”
Joe Fink lives less than a hundred yards from where the gas line was damaged. He says he came outside after he noticed commotion.
“I was just listening to the radio and got up to go to the bathroom and happened to look out and said, ‘what the devil?’ So I came out to see what the devil,” says Fink.
CenterPoint says they’ll have crews working into the night to get things done as quickly as possible, but they anticipate some customers will be without natural gas until Wednesday.
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