Latest Longhorn Pipeline News
Here’s the latest on the Longhorn Pipeline:
Monday’s Statesman reported that back in September, a bolt of lightning knocked out their leak-detection cable partway through Austin for about three weeks.
The stretch in question lies beneath Slaughter Lane in Southwest Austin, an area that includes homes and environmentally sensitive land, both of which the city feared for when it unsuccessfully sued to block the pipeline.
The cable was replaced around the 1st of October.
And this just in, via an email from the Barton Springs Edwards Aquifer Conservation District:
Longhorn Partners Pipeline, L.P. has committed to educating the public about all aspects of the pipeline and will hold a series of Neighborhood Meetings in areas along the pipeline route between Houston and El Paso. These “open house” style meetings will give opportunities for anyone concerned about the pipeline’s existence and operation to learn more about it. There will an open house at Langford Elementary School on Blue Meadow Road on October 20th, from 5-7 p.m. This is a “come and go as you please” meeting; there is no “program”, just an opportunity to meet some of the people that are responsible for the pipeline’s operations, health and safety, and monitoring programs, ask questions or state concerns, and get some knowledgeable responses. This may be the only such meeting near the District for the next year or more, so you may want to avail yourself of this opportunity to ask questions about any concerns that you may have.
For more information or questions, please contact Gina Johnson in Longhorn’s Public Relations office at 713-535-1116.
If you live near the Longhorn Pipeline, you should take advantage of the meeting and go meet the company officials and ask questions.