Company to Lay Gas Pipe in Mon River
Associated Press
10 December 2011
DONORA, Pa. — Part of the Monongahela River in southwestern
Pennsylvania will experience periodic closures through year’s end
while a Wisconsin construction company installs a Marcellus
natural gas pipeline under the river for a Virginia energy
company, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said.
Dominion Resources spokesman Charles Penn said the Richmond, Va.-
based energy company is installing the pipeline to accommodate gas
production in Washington County and other parts of the
Pennsylvania region.
Dominion bought the easements last year so Michels Corp., of
Brownsville, Wis., can install Dominion’s Appalachian Gateway
pipeline. The line will stretch about 110 miles from Marshall
County, W. Va., to Dominion’s Oakford compression station in
Delmont in Westmoreland County.
The river in the area of Donora, about 20 miles southeast of
Pittsburgh, will be blocked by the digging at various times
through Dec. 31, but the Army Corps says the work won’t stop
commercial navigation because only part of the river channel will
be closed. Michels will conduct the work throughout the day
Mondays through Saturdays.
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection issued a
permit for the work.