“... a high-pressure subsea natural gas pipeline was discovered...”
Huh?
Why do we have to “discover” a high pressure natural pipeline?
These reports are absurd. Pipelines and other buried water crossings are marked by signs at each end admonishing mariners not to drag their anchors across such areas. The salvors can’t read a sign? I also promise that any pipelines are well known.
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If only it were in the North Sea and running from Russia to Germany - then it would be no problem to blow it in place.
Why do they put a gas pipeline where it would be damaged by an anchor drag of a ship in an emergency ?
A pipeline safety expert from PHMSA confirmed concerns about a particular pipeline. They informed us, off the record, that the operator was notified and the pipeline has been isolated and depressurized.
PHMSA records indicate that the pipeline, which carries natural gas under high pressure, is owned by Baltimore Gas And Electric (BGE). It remains unclear when BGE was alerted and when the pipeline was shut down.
There are valves to shut down sections...and they did that already.
“”””They informed us, off the record, that the operator was notified and the pipeline has been isolated and depressurized. PHMSA records indicate that the pipeline, which carries natural gas under high pressure, is owned by Baltimore Gas And Electric (BGE).””””
Of course, this is just another excuse coming from DEI government slobs to slow walk the process.
According to the image at the OP link, the pipeline is represented by a blue line that runs parallel to the bridge
Excerpt:
The concern came during the due diligence process when salvage engineers discovered a high-pressure gas line near the wreckage. According to one source, both the Department of Transportation’s US Maritime Administration (MARAD) and the US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) have been notified.
A pipeline safety expert from PHMSA confirmed concerns about a particular pipeline. They informed us, off the record, that the operator was notified and the pipeline has been isolated and depressurized. PHMSA records indicate that the pipeline, which carries natural gas under high pressure, is owned by Baltimore Gas And Electric (BGE). It remains unclear when BGE was alerted and when the pipeline was shut down.
watch out where you drop that anchor. For all the folks wondering why you may not just drop the anchor in a channel. And they did supposedly drop an anchor. My thinking is that maybe the anchor turned the ship into the bridge piling. You see the anchor itself doesn’t hold the ship. The chain does a lot of the work. if you watch the videos it appears the ship was making headway. the channel was straight and the rudder alto possible not responsive should have kept the ship in a reasonable straight course. current and wind being part of the steerage.
They didn’t call before they dug?
I'm reminded of the Great Chicago Flood of 92. 1992, not 1892 and not as exciting as the fire of 1871. A crew drilling, pylons I thind for a bridge over the Chicago river drilled into the 100 plus miles of tunnels under downtown Chicago. Formerly used for merchandise/coal transport to downtown, at the time used for utility access, but "discovered" by the drilling crew. Nothing like Baltimore, a few days of closed business' including, if I remember correctly, options and commodity exchanges. A few billion in costs. Good thing the drilling crew discovered the tunnels. Not secret, but who knows what it costs today.
“delayed indefinitely yesterday after a high-pressure subsea natural gas pipeline was discovered under the wreckage.”
DISCOVERED?????
We have a high-pressure “subsea” natural gas pipeline IN A RIVER and we didn’t know about it?
Hmmm...
Just imagine the furor & delay when the near-extinct pink, with green poker dots, crabs are noticed under the wreck...
It will take 5 years of commissions & studies, followed by several years of federal and state reviews, to expend the initial 60-billion dollars of funding...
Masks and booster shots will be coming back...
And the complications pile up. Remember as long as Democrats have been in charge every project has cost more and more to complete not due to their complete incompetence but because the more you spend the more you can siphon off !
Remember the Big Guy gets 10%
Dig Safe?
WMAR news - images and videos - Francis Scott Key Bridge
