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Columbia Gas will be 'blowing off' pipeline in the Plum Point area

Process will be extremely loud! Expect traffic delays in the Plum Point/KY 551 area of Adair County, KY.

From Mike Keltner, Emergency Management Director

At approximately 4pmCT, today, Saturday July 8, 2017, Columbia Gas Transmission , will be "blowing off" a pipeline in the Plum Point - 551 area. This will be extremely loud! Please inform anyone that may not be able to get this message as delivered.

!!! Expect traffic Delays. !!!

DISCLAIMER: Adair County and State authorities were just informed of this required procedure by Columbia Gulf. It is our policy to inform the public as soon as possible. As Emergency Management Director, I have spoken with Columbia Gulf about providing more adequate notice time in the future. -Mike Keltner, Director, Adair Co. Emergency Management, 107 N High Street, Columbia, KY 42728. Emergency number: 270-384-6464




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Pipeline 'blow-off' seen from opposite side of KY 551



2017-07-08 - Area of Milepoint 6, near Plum Point Baptist Church - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com(c).
When Adair County Emergency Management Director warned that the Columbia Gas Tranmission pipeline blow-off would be LOUD, it was a bit of an understatement. Old time residents have been used to the noise, some say the blow-offs occur about every four years, but in the area with so many newcomers it was bewildering and disconcerting, to say the least, when, with little warning from the company, the blow-off first sounded before being completed in about one hour. Older area residents remember times when agents from Columbia Gas alerted everyone, in person, in earshot of the event. Many say that the sound has changed over the years, from a higher pitched, shrill sound to the equally loud but more bass sound of today. Emergency Manager Mike Keltner is requesting that the company give more advanced notice in the future. - EW

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Constable Jason Rector at South checkpoint, Pipeline Blow Off



2017-07-09 - KY 551, Egypt/Plum Point area of Adair County, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com(c).
Sixth District Constable Jason Rector manned the checkpoint south of the site of the Columbia Gas Transmission 'Blow Off' just over the trees in this photo, and across KY 551/Knifley Road, for Plum Point Baptist Church, center of photo. For Rector, the blow off was nothing new. He's heard them and often seen them all of his life. His thoughts were that they are needed every four years. He said that for this one, Emergency Manager Mike Keltner had asked for the road to be shut down, but that roads department(s), wanted it kept open, and it was. The Adair County Search & Rescue controlled traffic north of Plum Point Baptist Church. - EW. Photo 8 Jul 2017.

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