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my work had a meeting with kinder morgan a few weeks ago regarding safety while digging.
(city workers)
from the KM guy giving his speech:
KM produces 300,000 tanker trucks worth of oil a day
enough underground pipelines to wrap the earth several times
anyways, if anyone lives near an underground fuel line in burnaby (delta ave for example). every year the houses are given mail stating that even though the homeowner may own his property, they're not allowed to plant a garden if they're within 30m of the pipe line. if they do want to plant something simple as a garden, they need to have an inspector come out to supervise if they're within a closer vicinity that 30m. must suck knowing that you cant even do simple things on your own property. also, ground disturbances...for example, my work, we can not stick a shovel into the ground until we've contacted KM and have been given a no conflict response or have a KM supervisor on site to nanny us. it may not seem like a big deal, but when a watermain breaks at 3am, my dept crews can show up quite fast. but if we're within 30 meters, we are not allowed to shut the watermain down...we simply have to let the houses flood. several weeks ago there was a watermain break under a curb...cars park beside cars, and 1 car decided to flip over onto its side from all the undermined dirt underneath it. it only took minutes to destroy the street/flood houses with water up to 3-4 ft deep in their basements/and destroy a car before we could shut it down. imagine waiting possibly up to an hour before they can gt a supervisor to nanny us. lets hope that your house isn't near the pipeline hahaha
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