# ATMOS PIPELINE - TEXAS — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2015-07-02 **Citation:** PHMSA Report 20150101 **Type / status:** incident / historical **Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration **Effective:** 2015-07-02 **Published:** 2015-07-31 Gas transmission and gathering incident in BRYAN, BRAZOS County, TX. Reported cause: OTHER INCIDENT CAUSE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 3700 NATURAL GAS released, $950,000 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 BRYAN, BRAZOS County, TX. Reported cause: OTHER INCIDENT CAUSE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 3700 NATURAL GAS released, $950,000 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: 20150101. Operator ID: 31978. Reported incident date: 7/2/2015 21:45. Location detail: 61336 Cause detail: UNKNOWN Cause detail: MIC TECH RECEIVED A CALL FROM THE COMPANY GAS CONTROL NOTIFYING US OF PRESSURE PROBLEMS ON JULY 2, 2015. AFTER FURTHER INVESTIGATION IT WAS DETERMINED THAT DURING NORMAL OPERATIONS THE PIPELINE L8-9 AS IT CROSSES THE BRAZOS RIVER ON HWY 21 HAD DEVELOPED A LEAK. THE LINE WAS SHUT IN TO ELIMINATE THE LEAK AND ACTIONS TO CORRECT THE PROBLEM WERE STARTED IMMEDIATELY. A NEW LINE WAS BORED UNDERNEATH THE RIVER AND WAS PLACED IN SERVICE ON JULY 17, 2015. THE EXISTING LINE WAS ABANDONED AND LEFT IN PLACE. PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious. PHMSA standardized cause: ALL OTHER CAUSES — UNKNOWN. PHMSA indexed costs: $1,100,000 reported total cost, $615,667.991 in 1984 dollars, $1,344,453.093 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: `b74fd51e5cb337289888cfa76f8a55cf096be95c4c00f3ec7d4d9454596a7ccd` - Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z - Exported: 2026-08-24T16:35:20.646Z - Document slug: `phmsa-incident-859ec7f91b3e034a5b93a5fe` ### Source metadata ```json { "recordKind": "pipeline_incident", "datasetType": "gas_transmission_gathering", "datasetLabel": "Gas transmission and gathering", "datasetPeriod": "January 2010 to present", "report": { "number": "20150101", "supplementalNumber": "16829", "type": "SUPPLEMENTAL FINAL", "receivedDate": "2015-07-31", "receivedDateRaw": "7/31/2015" }, "operator": { "id": "31978", "name": "ATMOS PIPELINE - TEXAS" }, "incident": { "date": "2015-07-02", "dateRaw": "7/2/2015 21:45" }, "location": { "city": "BRYAN", "county": "BRAZOS", "state": "TX", "postalCode": "77807", "latitude": 30.628, "longitude": -96.5435, "type": "PIPELINE RIGHT-OF-WAY", "details": { "DESIGNATED_NAME": "61336" }, "facilityName": "L8-9" }, "cause": { "category": "OTHER INCIDENT CAUSE", "details": { "CAUSE_DETAILS": "UNKNOWN", "NARRATIVE": "MIC TECH RECEIVED A CALL FROM THE COMPANY GAS CONTROL NOTIFYING US OF PRESSURE PROBLEMS ON JULY 2, 2015. AFTER FURTHER INVESTIGATION IT WAS DETERMINED THAT DURING NORMAL OPERATIONS THE PIPELINE L8-9 AS IT CROSSES THE BRAZOS RIVER ON HWY 21 HAD DEVELOPED A LEAK. THE LINE WAS SHUT IN TO ELIMINATE THE LEAK AND ACTIONS TO CORRECT THE PROBLEM WERE STARTED IMMEDIATELY. A NEW LINE WAS BORED UNDERNEATH THE RIVER AND WAS PLACED IN SERVICE ON JULY 17, 2015. 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