In September last year, an explosion of the PG & E-pipeline in San Bruno, eight killed and left many more injured. Five years earlier a Walnut Creek explosion killed five workers and about 20 Contra Costa County complaints led. GJEL partner Luke Ellis and Jim Larsen helped the family by Tae Chin ch, a victim of the Walnut Creek pipeline explosion, recover $ 10.65 million. But in a report of this week for the San Jose Mercury News, Ellis expresses concern that one can see California, other tragic explosion due to the location of dangerous liquid pipes. He said "there are a lot of rows, where people do not know, they are in the vicinity of their schools or houses or hospitals,". "You hit one of those things, and to a catastrophic event."

Mercury News reporter Steve Johnson notes that many government officials don't even know the position of some of these dangerous pipes. The Department of transportation reported that led these pipelines between 2005 and 2009 71 "major" accidents, but another study of group common ground Alliance closer sets the number 320 excavation problems in 2009 alone. These types of accidents, on a larger scale can dead and wounded explosions as seriously as the last San Bruno and Walnut Creek.

After the explosion of San Bruno pipeline, the Fire Marshal wrote in a may report that on many State Fire obsolete had"cards and old contacts lists" and provides local officials with cards of their liquid pipelines, despite a federal 1988 law, that they needed, to do so. To solve this problem, Fire Marshal Division Chief Bob Gorham notes that the State of California of an online map of pipelines could set up for emergency officials. The national pipeline mapping system liquid pipes across the country also provides information on the site of many.

Check out the map, to determine whether one is that this dangerous pipelines in your backyard. But cards aside, to seriously reduce the risk of future California pipeline explosions, owners and the Government of safety regulations have and additional steps to ensure that the pipelines to connect, not close to major or potential dig sites such as hospitals and schools.

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