There is a common phrase -
“There are only 2 types of underground tanks / pipes: those that don’t leak, and those that are going to leak.”
The best you can do is monitor the corrosion and replace them before their coatings and ultimately their structure fails.
Hamburg is bad like that. where I work, there is a big storm drain that always overflows after a hard rain. The owner tried to get the blueprints for the storm drain to try and fix the problem, the village said “uhhh we don’t know where that drain goes. But we know it empties into the creek at some point?”
Nice!
I wish we had 800 psi @ work… 
Sometimes 200 is just not enough.
lol you’re never going to commercialize that thing 
To be fair, look a the timestamps. While I was typing my reply there were no posts in the thread yet.
Anyone read the report where they mentioned a 36 foot section in the vicinity of the explosion had been replaced just years earlier. That’s not suspicious or anything.
A section of Line A approximately 81 miles long that included the failure site was
internally inspected in 2000 with a standard resolution magnetic flux leakage (MFL) tool
and a deformation tool. This led to the replacement of a 36-foot section of pipe of Line A
in the vicinity of the failure site. Sections of Lines Band C approximately 65 miles long
that included the failure site were internally inspected in 2008 with a high resolution MFL
tool and a deformation tool. This led to some immediate repairs on Line C including the
replacement of a 200-foot section of Line C adjacent in the vicinity of the failure site.
^^ “They don’t make 'em like they used to”
Probably used that shitty Chinese steel. 
crazy. corrosion doesnt happen in buffalo, RIGHT?!?
could farming chemicals have sped up the corrosion process?
Depends on what & how much they used but it would still take a good deal of time. Ground water / rain would dilute things too.
We don’t know what the replaced (and failed) section of the pipe was made from, and we don’t know what (if anything) the farmer used.
So all we can do is look at cool pictures. But if I had to bet, farm chemicals had little or no effect.
There is only a few miles of pipeline anyway… I’m sure it will not happen again.
Looks like Maine is pretty clear.
ya, bu WTF louisiana?!?
The Gulf looks like it could have issues with a broken pipe.
Largest port in the western hemisphere + refinerys + lots of natty-gas
BTW, looking at that map and inferring high risk of pipe explosions is like looking at FlightExplorer.com and inferring high risk of plane crashes.
Pretty easy to see why the pipelines look like that when you realize who the top 5 producers are.
The funny part is that we have a shitload of them right near us yet pay more for gas (natural and gasoline) than the West which largely has none. And not all of it is taxes.
does the Legend make sense to anybody else?
Interstate = between states / across state lines
Intrastate = inside one state
