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Menlo Park: Gas leak ignites and melts water main in Sharon Heights

Original post made on Dec 7, 2016

A break in a small gas line that burned a hole in a large water main led first to shooting flames and then to jets of water on Tuesday evening (Dec. 6) at 300 Sand Hill Circle in Menlo Park.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, December 7, 2016, 11:50 AM

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Posted by SteveC
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Dec 7, 2016 at 1:29 pm

SteveC is a registered user.

Congrats to the neighbor and the Rosewood for taking in people who need shelter.


Posted by PlzChimeIn
a resident of Menlo Park: Stanford Weekend Acres
on Dec 7, 2016 at 1:49 pm

After the tragedy in San Bruno, does anyone else feel deeply disturbed hearing about this "unknown" gas leak that was ignited in addition to the amount of time it took to turn it off, or does this kind of thing happen routinely? The article makes it sound like if it were not for the ignition of this "unknown" gas leak resulting in flames identifying its location, then they would have had a hard time finding it, but obviously they would have had to have known there was a gas leak in the first place...
Anyone else concerned about PG&E's ability to keep us safe, or am
I missing something?
Please chime in.


Posted by Jon Castor
a resident of Woodside: Woodside Heights
on Dec 7, 2016 at 5:16 pm

Jon Castor is a registered user.

PG&E is using Picarro's gas leak detection technology (Picarro is a local venture based on tech developed at Stanford) to find leaks like this. Not clear if they've surveyed the Sharon Heights area yet, though PG&E tout the scope of the program in their PR: Web Link If they haven't surveyed Sharon Heights yet, now's the time. If they have surveyed and this leak wasn't found, why not?


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