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Anthony Moscarelli
Homeowner with three pipelines near house
Worry: Un-explained Mercaptan smell in deep soil.
• Project Coordinator for Healthy Community Research for Suisun City. Obtained PHMSA TAG grant in 2009
• Conducted a technical baseline study of aging pipelines in the Suisun City pipeline corridor.
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Natural gas pipeline route in Suisun corridor
1983 Natural Gas pipelinesreplaced here to here
New gas valves2009 Old gas valves
removed 2010
1949 Natural Gas pipeline1965 Natural Gas Pipeline
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Pacific Gas and Electric’s Role
• PG&E eventually agreed to cooperate with study
• Provided contact with company attorney
• These were encouraging early signs!
• But then…
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Study leads to more unanswered questions
• The study of our small area ( 3.5 miles ) raised more questions from unfulfilled work records requests.
• By May 2011 , CPUC informed me that PG&E had refused to provide records I requested.
• In July 2011 my contact reiterated PG&E’s top management’s committed cooperation with the study.
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Bureaucratic Gridlock
• One year later, PG&E’s attorney was not aware that hydro-testing was scheduled on one of our pipelines although the pipeline was ‘Pigged’ 30-days earlier.
• PG&E contractors knew of the study/me and how to contact my contact.
• A second hydro-test that I witnessed through the first hours, was later suspended after I left.
• A recently installed (2009) valve was found to leak, and was repaired. I was notified 6 days later after repairs were complete.
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Hydro-test leak was reported at the 2009 installed Pig passable valve @ 67% of MAOP
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Ongoing Bureaucratic Gridlock
• If CPUC staff had informed me of specific code requirements for my requests, I could have used the CPUC process for requesting records properly.
• PG&E’s attorney told me that they did not refuse to have information from the CPUC released to me.
• CPUC’s attorney told me that PG&E did, but could not share the letter.