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Old 04-02-2013, 08:20 AM   #114
Daradon
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Originally Posted by GP_Matt View Post
They should be pigging pipelines like this on a regular basis.
The pig will be able to determine wall thickness and identify any weak spots in the pipe. From there they expose the pipe and replace the weakened section and restart the pipeline.
A lot of the spills though are from someone digging without locating the pipe first and striking it. I think that may be more common on old pipelines because people forget they are there and can no longer see the evidence of construction.
Ok, but that's kind of my question. Do they?

And I'm assuming that since we haven't heard anything about it yet, this wasn't caused by an oops in some construction digging?
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