Post by casey on Sept 4, 2009 6:54:09 GMT -6
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Some-fume-over-Nicor-gas-passingfuming over Nicor ‘gas purge’
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September 4, 2009
By BILL BIRD wbird@scn1.com
It was the "purge" heard 'round the world. Or at least 'round some parts of Aurora.
The ear-splitting, seemingly interminable sound was described by one local resident as "a combination of a wind tunnel, vacuum sucking, motor-revving noise at a very high decibel level."
The cacophony lasted nearly an hour, from 7 until 7:45 p.m. Tuesday. It blared from an area near Eola Road south of the Big Woods forest preserve, not far from Aurora's northeastern borders with Naperville and Warrenville.
A woman who lives near that area described the din in an e-mail to the Aurora Beacon-News and Naperville Sun.
"It was a very loud noise, larger than a low jet which, at first, I thought it was," the woman wrote. "But the noise was sustained and lasted for over 25 minutes, then stopped briefly, then picked up again."
She and several neighbors piled into their cars and tried to follow the sound, but got only as far as the intersection of Bilter and Eola roads, the woman wrote.
At least two other people complained about the noise via telephone to Aurora police. A Naperville Fire Department spokesman said his agency received no calls concerning the situation.
The sound was identified Thursday as being a seasonal venting of a natural gas pipeline by employees of Naperville-based Nicor Gas.
"There was a purge" Tuesday evening of a gas line near the northeast corner of the intersection of Interstate 88 and Eola Road, said Tom Kallay, Nicor's community relations director.
Kallay defined a purge as a necessary reduction of gas pressure in a pipeline, "and in order to do that, we had to release natural gas into the atmosphere."
Natural gas dissipates immediately in the air, and thus poses no health threat to area residents, passersby or the environment, Kallay said.
He added the purge was "all part of Nicor's routine maintenance of our system, so we can continue to provide safe, reliable service to our customers."
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this isn't anywhere near MV is it? What exactly is a "purge" of natural gas? No concerns, right?
Some-fume-over-Nicor-gas-passingfuming over Nicor ‘gas purge’
Comments
September 4, 2009
By BILL BIRD wbird@scn1.com
It was the "purge" heard 'round the world. Or at least 'round some parts of Aurora.
The ear-splitting, seemingly interminable sound was described by one local resident as "a combination of a wind tunnel, vacuum sucking, motor-revving noise at a very high decibel level."
The cacophony lasted nearly an hour, from 7 until 7:45 p.m. Tuesday. It blared from an area near Eola Road south of the Big Woods forest preserve, not far from Aurora's northeastern borders with Naperville and Warrenville.
A woman who lives near that area described the din in an e-mail to the Aurora Beacon-News and Naperville Sun.
"It was a very loud noise, larger than a low jet which, at first, I thought it was," the woman wrote. "But the noise was sustained and lasted for over 25 minutes, then stopped briefly, then picked up again."
She and several neighbors piled into their cars and tried to follow the sound, but got only as far as the intersection of Bilter and Eola roads, the woman wrote.
At least two other people complained about the noise via telephone to Aurora police. A Naperville Fire Department spokesman said his agency received no calls concerning the situation.
The sound was identified Thursday as being a seasonal venting of a natural gas pipeline by employees of Naperville-based Nicor Gas.
"There was a purge" Tuesday evening of a gas line near the northeast corner of the intersection of Interstate 88 and Eola Road, said Tom Kallay, Nicor's community relations director.
Kallay defined a purge as a necessary reduction of gas pressure in a pipeline, "and in order to do that, we had to release natural gas into the atmosphere."
Natural gas dissipates immediately in the air, and thus poses no health threat to area residents, passersby or the environment, Kallay said.
He added the purge was "all part of Nicor's routine maintenance of our system, so we can continue to provide safe, reliable service to our customers."
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this isn't anywhere near MV is it? What exactly is a "purge" of natural gas? No concerns, right?
