# SOUTHERN STAR CENTRAL GAS PIPELINE — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2005-06-30 **Citation:** PHMSA Report 20050077 **Type / status:** incident / historical **Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration **Effective:** 2005-06-30 **Published:** 2005-07-25 Gas transmission and gathering incident in LAWRENCE, DOUGLAS County, KS. Reported cause: 23. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, $192,163 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 LAWRENCE, DOUGLAS County, KS. Reported cause: 23. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, $192,163 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: 20050077. Operator ID: 31711. Reported incident date: 6/30/2005. Cause detail: INCORRECT OPERATION Cause detail: ON JUNE 30TH AT APPROXIMATELY 7:52PM GAS CONTROL RECEIVED AN ALARM OF AN OVERPRESSURE SITUATION ON THE TOPEKA 20" AT OTTAWA STATION. OPERATIONS PERSONNEL WERE CONTACTED AT 8:05PM AND ARRIVED TO OTTAWA STATION AT 8:09PM AND FOUND LINE PRESSURE ON THE TOPEKA SYSTEM HAD EXCEEDED IT'S MAOP OF 450 PSIG DUE TO A LIGHTENING STORM CAUSING THE WORKING REGULATOR 1137 R TO FAIL OPEN. THE MONITOR REGULATOR 1137 RM FAILED TO OPERATE EXPOSING LINE ES TO A PRESSURE OF 679 PSIG. IT WAS LATER DETERMINED THE MONITOR REGULATOR FAILURE WAS DUE TO PNEUMATIC CONTROLLER'S SUPPLY VALVE BEING SHUT. AT 8:15 THE TOPEKA 20" RUPTURED APPROXIMATELY 3 MILES SOUTH OF LAWRENCE KANSAS. RICHARD HANES ARRIVED ON SITE OF RUPTURE AT 9:09PM, AND REPORTED THAT GAS WAS BLOWING AT MAINLINE PRESSURE AND THERE WAS NO FIRE. AT 9:42PM THE BALDWIN MAIN LINE GATE WAS CLOSED, SHUTTING IN THE RUPTURED SECTION. A CHECK VALVE AT HASKELL BOTTOMS NEAR LAWRENCE PREVENTED LOSS OF PRESSURE ELSEWHERE ON OUR SYSTEM. PHMSA trend classification: significant incident, not serious. PHMSA standardized cause: INCORRECT OPERATION — OTHER INCORRECT OPERATION. PHMSA indexed costs: $192,163 reported total cost, $103,534.163 in 1984 dollars, $207,543.834 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: `dd1335600b30525028efbc732970a5afdd997434d6614a7f8651d5cc40da3b00` - Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z - Exported: 2026-08-26T19:55:04.432Z - Document slug: `phmsa-incident-884f6e423a81c554c8ad1a58` ### Source metadata ```json { "recordKind": "pipeline_incident", "datasetType": "gas_transmission_gathering", "datasetLabel": "Gas transmission and gathering", "datasetPeriod": "2002 to December 2009", "report": { "number": "20050077", "supplementalNumber": null, "type": null, "receivedDate": "2005-07-25", "receivedDateRaw": "7/25/2005" }, "operator": { "id": "31711", "name": "SOUTHERN STAR CENTRAL GAS PIPELINE" }, "incident": { "date": "2005-06-30", "dateRaw": "6/30/2005" }, "location": { "city": "LAWRENCE", "county": "DOUGLAS", "state": "KS", "postalCode": "66044", "latitude": 38.81818, "longitude": -95.241616, "type": null, "details": {}, "facilityName": null }, "cause": { "category": "23", "details": { "CAUSE_DETAILS_TEXT": "INCORRECT OPERATION", "NARRATIVE": "ON JUNE 30TH AT APPROXIMATELY 7:52PM GAS CONTROL RECEIVED AN ALARM OF AN OVERPRESSURE SITUATION ON THE TOPEKA 20\" AT OTTAWA STATION. OPERATIONS PERSONNEL WERE CONTACTED AT 8:05PM AND ARRIVED TO OTTAWA STATION AT 8:09PM AND FOUND LINE PRESSURE ON THE TOPEKA SYSTEM HAD EXCEEDED IT'S MAOP OF 450 PSIG DUE TO A LIGHTENING STORM CAUSING THE WORKING REGULATOR 1137 R TO FAIL OPEN. THE MONITOR REGULATOR 1137 RM FAILED TO OPERATE EXPOSING LINE ES TO A PRESSURE OF 679 PSIG. IT WAS LATER DETERMINED THE MONITOR REGULATOR FAILURE WAS DUE TO PNEUMATIC CONTROLLER'S SUPPLY VALVE BEING SHUT. AT 8:15 THE TOPEKA 20\" RUPTURED APPROXIMATELY 3 MILES SOUTH OF LAWRENCE KANSAS. RICHARD HANES ARRIVED ON SITE OF RUPTURE AT 9:09PM, AND REPORTED THAT GAS WAS BLOWING AT MAINLINE PRESSURE AND THERE WAS NO FIRE. AT 9:42PM THE BALDWIN MAIN LINE GATE WAS CLOSED, SHUTTING IN THE RUPTURED SECTION. 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