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September 14, 2007

Break leaves 100s without gas in East Providence

National Grid employees are walking door to door in the Riverside neighborhood of East Providence turning the gas back on and igniting pilot lights after a gas main break disrupted service to about 400 households yesterday.

According to David Graves, a spokesman for National Grid, the company got a call from a construction crew working on Crescent View Avenue at about 3 p.m. reporting the main had been ruptured.

Graves said a loose drainage pipe rose with the tide along the Providence River -- where construction crews were working on a bridge – and knocked into the gas main.

National Grid employees walked to all of the houses, manually turning off gas and letting residents know that they'd call when main was repaired.

"Many residents said, 'Don't bother waking us up,'" Graves said. The damage was repaired at about 11:30 p.m.

Graves said he does not know exactly how many people are still without gas, but employees are calling and going door-to-door until they’ve reached everyone.

After turning on the gas line to individual homes, workers need to get inside the house and relight pilots.

It's not hard work, Graves said, "but it's labor intensive."

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