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NIPSCO postpones repair of leaky gas valve on Calumet Rd until further notice

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On Thursday, July 2, NIPSCO was supposed to make an emergency repair of a leaking natural-gas valve on Calumet Road, just south of the Norfolk Southern railroad grade-crossing.

But the locate company got to the scene late on Thursday, too late to begin excavation, so the grade-crossing ended up being closed for eight hours that day for no good reason.

So--after deadline on Thursday--NIPSCO postponed the job until today, Monday, July 6, and Street Commissioner John Schnadenberg duly informed the Chesterton Tribune of that fact, though too late to make Thursday’s edition. The Trib did get something up on the website, since the paper didn’t publish a Friday edition.

Motorists in the Downtown today will have noticed, however, that there was no NIPSCO crew toiling away on Calumet Road and that the grade-crossing remained open.

That’s because NIPSCO has simply postponed the job “until further notice,” Schnadenberg said.

The reason this time: a welder is required for the work but the NIPSCO crew was unable to arrange for the services of one today.

NIPSCO is calling the gas leak a “small” one (although pedestrians crossing the street have apparently gotten whiffs of gas).

 

 

Posted 7/6/2015

 

 
 
 
 

 

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