# NORTHERN NATURAL GAS CO — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2016-08-25 **Citation:** PHMSA Report 20160076 **Type / status:** incident / historical **Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration **Effective:** 2016-08-25 **Published:** 2016-09-23 Gas transmission and gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, LINCOLN County, KS. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 60 NATURAL GAS released, $50,000 reported property damage. Operator-reported incident data submitted to PHMSA, generally within 30 days. Records may be supplemented or corrected and do not represent final agency causal findings. PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious. ## Document text Gas transmission and gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, LINCOLN County, KS. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 60 NATURAL GAS released, $50,000 reported property damage. Operator-reported incident data submitted to PHMSA, generally within 30 days. Records may be supplemented or corrected and do not represent final agency causal findings. Report number: 20160076. Operator ID: 13750. Reported incident date: 8/25/2016 13:20. Location detail: 30.14 Cause detail: EXTERNAL CORROSION Cause detail: ON AUGUST 25, 2016 AT APPROXIMATELY 1310 HOURS THE OPERATIONS COMMUNICATION CENTER RECEIVED A CALL FROM THE LINCOLN COUNTY, KANSAS DISPATCH OF BLOWING GAS IN LINCOLN COUNTY, KANSAS. SCADA READINGS INDICATED A RAPID DECREASE IN PRESSURE ON THE KSM20601-M640A BUSHTON TO TESCOTT A-LINE. FIELD OPERATIONS CONFIRMED THE PIPELINE HAD FAILED APPROXIMATELY 200-YARDS NORTH OF INTERSTATE HIGHWAY 70. THE HIGHWAY WAS BLOCKED OFF BY EMERGENCY RESPONDERS. AT APPROXIMATELY 1543-HOURS THE MAINLINE BLOCK VALVES WERE CLOSED UPSTREAM AND DOWNSTREAM OF THE SITE AND THE PRESSURE DECREASED TO 0-PSIG. PHMSA ACCIDENT INVESTIGATORS FROM THE CENTRAL REGION AND SOUTHWEST REGION ARRIVED ON SITE BY 20:30 AND AT 13:00 ON AUGUST 26, 2016, RESPECTIVELY. INITIAL EXAMINATION SHOWED THE PIPELINE RUPTURED DUE TO ISOLATED GENERAL EXTERNAL CORROSION. THE FAILED PIECE WAS 9-FEET LONG WITH ABOUT 18 SQUARE FEET OF THINNER WALL PIPE. THE SURROUNDING PIPE APPEARS TO BE IN GOOD CONDITION. THE FAILED PIECES WERE SENT FOR LABORATORY EXAMINATION. **UPDATE** NORTHERN HAS BEEN PROVIDING QUARTERLY UPDATES TO THE SOUTHWEST REGION PHMSA THAT CONTAINS MORE INFORMATION. PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious. PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — EXTERNAL. PHMSA indexed costs: $242,520 reported total cost, $217,374.106 in 1984 dollars, $311,138.406 in current-year dollars. PHMSA trend flags, standardized causes, and indexed costs are analytical fields added to operator-reported incident data. They do not represent final agency causal findings. ## Provenance - Official: Yes - Source: - Source ID: `phmsa-pipeline-incidents` - SHA-256: `bb40a4a45bbd14ae144f36161e9d1f24856a41434faf9224df16352a2e7046df` - Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z - Exported: 2026-08-24T15:06:20.798Z - Document slug: `phmsa-incident-3284ddc15d19c1486a3e13dc` ### Source metadata ```json { "recordKind": "pipeline_incident", "datasetType": "gas_transmission_gathering", "datasetLabel": "Gas transmission and gathering", "datasetPeriod": "January 2010 to present", "report": { "number": "20160076", "supplementalNumber": "17361", "type": "SUPPLEMENTAL FINAL", "receivedDate": "2016-09-23", "receivedDateRaw": "9/23/2016" }, "operator": { "id": "13750", "name": "NORTHERN NATURAL GAS CO" }, "incident": { "date": "2016-08-25", "dateRaw": "8/25/2016 13:20" }, "location": { "city": "Not Within a Municipality", "county": "LINCOLN", "state": "KS", "postalCode": "67425", "latitude": 38.876956, "longitude": -98.034321, "type": "PIPELINE RIGHT-OF-WAY", "details": { "DESIGNATED_NAME": "30.14" }, "facilityName": "KSM20601" }, "cause": { "category": "CORROSION FAILURE", "details": { "CAUSE_DETAILS": "EXTERNAL CORROSION", "NARRATIVE": "ON AUGUST 25, 2016 AT APPROXIMATELY 1310 HOURS THE OPERATIONS COMMUNICATION CENTER RECEIVED A CALL FROM THE LINCOLN COUNTY, KANSAS DISPATCH OF BLOWING GAS IN LINCOLN COUNTY, KANSAS. SCADA READINGS INDICATED A RAPID DECREASE IN PRESSURE ON THE KSM20601-M640A BUSHTON TO TESCOTT A-LINE. FIELD OPERATIONS CONFIRMED THE PIPELINE HAD FAILED APPROXIMATELY 200-YARDS NORTH OF INTERSTATE HIGHWAY 70. THE HIGHWAY WAS BLOCKED OFF BY EMERGENCY RESPONDERS. AT APPROXIMATELY 1543-HOURS THE MAINLINE BLOCK VALVES WERE CLOSED UPSTREAM AND DOWNSTREAM OF THE SITE AND THE PRESSURE DECREASED TO 0-PSIG. PHMSA ACCIDENT INVESTIGATORS FROM THE CENTRAL REGION AND SOUTHWEST REGION ARRIVED ON SITE BY 20:30 AND AT 13:00 ON AUGUST 26, 2016, RESPECTIVELY. INITIAL EXAMINATION SHOWED THE PIPELINE RUPTURED DUE TO ISOLATED GENERAL EXTERNAL CORROSION. THE FAILED PIECE WAS 9-FEET LONG WITH ABOUT 18 SQUARE FEET OF THINNER WALL PIPE. THE SURROUNDING PIPE APPEARS TO BE IN GOOD CONDITION. 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