PITT LANDFILL GAS, LLC — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2015-08-14

Gas transmission and gathering incident in GREENVILLE, PITT County, NC. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 390 LANDFILL GAS released, $25,000 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: 20150130.

Operator ID: 32037.

Reported incident date: 8/14/2015 8:00.

Location detail: 1.56 MILE MAR

Cause detail: NON-THREADED CONNECTION FAILURE

Cause detail: LINE IS A LOW PRESSURE (6 PSIG) LINE THAT TRANSMITS LANDFILL GAS (LFG) APPROXIAMTELYK 11,000 FEET FROM THE LANDFILL TO A HOSPITAL BOILER ROOM. EVIDENCE OF LEAK WAS FOUND DURING A LINE WALK IN Q4 2014. SEVERAL ATTEMPTS WERE MADE IN Q1 OF 2015 TO FIND AND REPAIR THE LEAK. LEAK WAS FOUND IN Q3 2015 UNDER SIDEWALK IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO BUSY ROADWAY. LEAK WAS REPAIRED WHEN FOUND. LEAK APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN FROM A PREVIOUS REPAIR (HDPE ELECTROFUSION FITTING WAS FOUND TO BE LEAKING).

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — NON-THREADED CONNECTION FAILURE.

PHMSA indexed costs: $26,105 reported total cost, $13,566.26 in 1984 dollars, $32,144.315 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.