The Borough of New Brighton released the following statement:
(New Brighton, Pa) Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania customers in parts of Daugherty Township and Pulaski Township are temporarily without natural gas service. Columbia Gas shut down service as a safety precaution after Columbia Gas technicians identified an issue with natural gas introduced into the system by a third-party upstream gas supplier.
Columbia Gas has taken this measure out of an abundance of caution. The restoration of service is expected to take several days.
A full list of streets affected by the outage and updates on the status of the outage can be found at www.ColumbiaGasPA.com/
Columbia Gas is working with the American Red Cross and local emergency management officials to open a warming center today at 12:00 Noon with refreshments and cots/blankets for affected customers who may want overnight accommodations. The center is located at the Conway Borough Municipal Building, 801 First Avenue, Conway, PA 15027.
Once the flow of natural gas into the system is restored, Columbia Gas crews will go door-to-door to perform safety checks and relight natural gas appliances. Homes where service has not been restored yet are asked to keep their porch lights on. To learn more about the relight process, please visit www.ColumbiaGasPA.com/relight.
All Columbia Gas employees and contractors wear a company-issued ID badge with their photo on it.
For customers not home during the service restoration process, door hangers will be left at their homes informing them of the outage and requesting they call Columbia Gas at 1-888-460-4332 for a service technician to be dispatched to restore service to their homes.