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PG&E 2007 Report: Risk of Pipeline Failure 'Unacceptably High'
The Bay Citizen
September 11, 2010
As early as 2007, Pacific Gas & Electric Company officials considered a portion of the gas main that ruptured and triggered the deadly San Bruno blaze on Thursday to be at "unacceptably" high risk for failure, according to documents obtained by The Bay Citizen.
The documents raise new questions about the extent of PG&E's responsibility for the biggest disaster in the utility's 105-year history in California that left 6 dead and 37 homes burned to the ground in the Crestmoor neighborhood.
The utility company had planned to repair by 2013 a 7,481-foot long section of pipe, which it deemed—based on internal risk assessments made in 2007 — one of PG&E's "top 100 highest risk line sections."
The break was just 2.8 miles south of the section of the pipe that was deemed to be high risk, according to the California Public Utilities Commission and PG&E officials.
Read the full article on the Bay Citizen website.