MISSISSIPPI RIVER TRANSMISSION CORP — Gas transmission and gathering — incident on 2004-06-08

Gas transmission and gathering incident in OLYPHANT, INDEPENDENCE County, AR. Reported cause: 1. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, $57,471 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: 20040057.

Operator ID: 12576.

Reported incident date: 6/8/2004.

Cause detail: CORROSION, EXTERNAL

Cause detail: LEAK WAS FOUND DURING NORMAL OPERATIONS WHILE CHECKING RECTIFIER IN THE SAME GENERAL AREA ON 6/8/04. LEAK WAS NOT DETERMINED TO BE REPORTABLE AT FIRST, HOWEVER ONCE LEAK WAS EXPOSED IT WAS DETERMINED THAT A 40 FOOT SECTION OF PIPE NEEDED TO BE REPLACE. BECAUSE OF THE TIME AND LABOR INVOLVED ON THE REPAIR, THE COST EDGED ABOVE THE $50,000 REPORTING LIMIT AND WAS REPORTED ON 6/11/04.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: CORROSION — EXTERNAL.

PHMSA indexed costs: $57,471 reported total cost, $34,999.389 in 1984 dollars, $66,511.286 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.