Crime & Safety
Crater From Pipeline Explosion to Be Filled Next Week
The Sept. 9 pipeline explosion left a 72-foot-by-26-foot hole in the ground near Glenview Drive and Earl Avenue in the Crestmoor neighborhood.
City officials said today that the crater caused by last year's deadly pipeline explosion will be filled in next week.
A PG&E natural gas transmission pipeline exploded in the Crestmoor neighborhood on Sept. 9, 2010, with the blast and resulting fire killing eight people, injuring dozens of others and destroying 38 houses.
The blast also left a 72-foot-by-26-foot hole in the ground near Glenview Drive and Earl Avenue that has remained in the neighborhood. Residents and officials last week marked the one-year anniversary of the disaster with a at Skyline College, remembering the damage that was caused after the pipeline ruptured and urging everyone to not forget what happened.
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City officials said more details about the project will be released later
today.
—Bay City News
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