# NATURAL GAS PIPELINE CO OF AMERICA (KMI) — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2017-10-04 **Citation:** PHMSA Report 20170100 **Type / status:** incident / historical **Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration **Effective:** 2017-10-04 **Published:** 2017-11-01 Gas transmission and gathering incident in Not Within a Municipality, BARTON County, KS. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 1488 NATURAL GAS released, $62,100 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, BARTON County, KS. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 1488 NATURAL GAS released, $62,100 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: 20170100. Operator ID: 13120. Reported incident date: 10/4/2017 15:19. Location detail: MP 252 Cause detail: EXTERNAL CORROSION Cause detail: 10/04/2017; EMPLOYEE PERFORMING CIVIL SURVEY TASKS ON NGPL AMARILLO #2 LINE FOUND THE LEAK BY OBSERVING A SMALL AMOUNT OF BLOWING SOIL; PIPELINE LEAK CONFIRMED WITH NATURAL GAS DETECTION EQUIPMENT. PIPELINE VALVE SECTION WAS ISOLATED, BLOWN DOWN AND SECURED SAME DAY. EXCAVATION OF THE LEAK SITE BEGAN ON 10/10/2017. REPAIR OF THE PIPELINE BY PIPE REPLACEMENT WAS COMPLETED ON 10/23/2017. THE PIPELINE VALVE SECTION WAS RETURNED TO SERVICE ON 10/24/2017. ALL TIMES IN THIS REPORT ARE CENTRAL TIME ZONE. PIR = 479 FEET; PIR WITH KM BUFFER = 519 FEET; PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious. PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — EXTERNAL. PHMSA indexed costs: $100,171 reported total cost, $66,389.488 in 1984 dollars, $119,151.443 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: `4b6896f0e45ef7d56105ce9b215fe5b7464689f63d88834715ec5661ed266e76` - Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z - Exported: 2026-08-23T02:47:23.823Z - Document slug: `phmsa-incident-360c1b34140c134bbb07e28a` ### Source metadata ```json { "recordKind": "pipeline_incident", "datasetType": "gas_transmission_gathering", "datasetLabel": "Gas transmission and gathering", "datasetPeriod": "January 2010 to present", "report": { "number": "20170100", "supplementalNumber": "17502", "type": "SUPPLEMENTAL FINAL", "receivedDate": "2017-11-01", "receivedDateRaw": "11/1/2017" }, "operator": { "id": "13120", "name": "NATURAL GAS PIPELINE CO OF AMERICA (KMI)" }, "incident": { "date": "2017-10-04", "dateRaw": "10/4/2017 15:19" }, "location": { "city": "Not Within a Municipality", "county": "BARTON", "state": "KS", "postalCode": "67544", "latitude": 38.5373221, "longitude": -98.797055, "type": "PIPELINE RIGHT-OF-WAY", "details": { "DESIGNATED_NAME": "MP 252" }, "facilityName": "AMARILLO #2 LINE" }, "cause": { "category": "CORROSION FAILURE", "details": { "CAUSE_DETAILS": "EXTERNAL CORROSION", "NARRATIVE": "10/04/2017; EMPLOYEE PERFORMING CIVIL SURVEY TASKS ON NGPL AMARILLO #2 LINE FOUND THE LEAK BY OBSERVING A SMALL AMOUNT OF BLOWING SOIL; PIPELINE LEAK CONFIRMED WITH NATURAL GAS DETECTION EQUIPMENT. PIPELINE VALVE SECTION WAS ISOLATED, BLOWN DOWN AND SECURED SAME DAY. EXCAVATION OF THE LEAK SITE BEGAN ON 10/10/2017. REPAIR OF THE PIPELINE BY PIPE REPLACEMENT WAS COMPLETED ON 10/23/2017. THE PIPELINE VALVE SECTION WAS RETURNED TO SERVICE ON 10/24/2017. ALL TIMES IN THIS REPORT ARE CENTRAL TIME ZONE. PIR = 479 FEET; PIR WITH KM BUFFER = 519 FEET;" } }, "consequences": { "fatalities": 0, "injuries": 0, "commodity": "NATURAL GAS", "release": "1488", "propertyDamage": 62100, "estimatedOperatorCost": 0, "estimatedEmergencyCost": 250, "estimatedEnvironmentalCost": null, "ignition": "NO", "explosion": "NO", "evacuated": 0, "raw": { "FATAL": "0", "INJURE": "0", "UNINTENTIONAL_RELEASE": "1488", "EST_COST_PROP_DAMAGE": "62100", "PRPTY": "100171" } }, "provenance": { "viewId": "27nc-rsge", "viewUrl": "https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/27nc-rsge", "assetId": "2b05c2d8-d14a-4c56-ac1c-7d23a4bc31c8", "archiveFilename": "Gas Transmission & Gathering Incident Data - January 2010 to present.zip", "archiveSha256": "fe0b136ca4b00ac987a8bc2e195098accf910d97512c5fc3b59e62d9da5f674e", "memberPath": "incident_gas_transmission_gathering_jan2010_present.txt", "memberSha256": "b435f2a25718cf54c54e00294e6788c4f9c6860e02fb86355e75d294c243c4dd", "rowNumber": 1051, "rowSha256": "cce7366219ecba95b559946fa223bf18c1c19f4d7b484f85ed8326c499a66c50" }, "caveat": "Operator-reported incident data submitted to PHMSA, generally within 30 days. 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