PULLMAN, Wash. — Update | Avista says they are not experiencing any delays in the natural gas restoration across the Palouse following the largest natural gas outage in the company's history. Avitsa told KREM 2 News they have had to change some plans in some regions of Pullman due to pressurization issues, but this had not created any delays as claimed by city officials.
Avista says gas has been restored to more than 26,000 customers who experienced outage as of Nov. 13 at 4:30 p.m. The company is still expected to be restored in all homes by Tuesday.
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Avista Utilities has confirmed the natural gas leak at Williams Pipeline near Pullman has been repaired.
Now, the company anticipates being able to start the relight of natural gas appliances on Friday. Avista has described the incident as the largest natural gas outage in its history. 37,000 customers are said to be affected. Avista says the natural gas should be turned on to everyone by Tuesday.
President of Avista, Heather Rosentrater, said, "Once we understood the number of customers that would be impacted, we recognized we needed to ramp up very quickly to be able to respond to these customers."
"I'm incredibly impressed with our employees with the response of our peer utilities with the response of our community and supporting it the community officials," Rosentrater added.
Additional information about the estimated restoration times identified by where you are can be accessed here.
Avista said crews were alerted of the leak impacting the Williams Pipeline natural gas system Wednesday afternoon. That pipeline is one of several natural gas pipeline companies that Avista contracts with for wholesale transportation of natural gas.
Crews have to disconnect gas service to impacted customers. Avista says the leak will affect customers in the Pullman, Moscow, Albion, Palouse, Union-Town, Colton, Genesee, Troy, Bovill, Deary, Asotin, Lewiston and Clarkston regions. Crews have to go to each individual gas meter to make sure they are manually turned off. Avista said additional crews are being brought into the area to help restore services.
The gas leak has caused several businesses, universities and school districts to shut down. For more details on those closures, click here.
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