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Pipeline Group holds annual awareness program
Western Kansas
The Pipeline Group's annual "Public Education--Contractor Awareness Program" will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 13 at the Ford County 4-H Building, 901 W. Park Street, in Dodge City. The program will be sponsored by a group of companies with a common goal of preventing accidents and damages to underground pipelines and utilities. A free dinner will be catered by Kim's Ribs for all persons involved in excavation related activities in Clark, Edwards, Ford and Gray counties. Following the dinner, a brief safety program will be presented which stresses the importance of accident prevention by identifying pipeline and utility rights of way, use of one-call systems, and the importance of working with pipeline and utility companies to safely excavate in the vicinity of underground facilities. Sponsors will provide promotional materials; including notification information for their companies, safety related brochures and other safety reminders.
Each year many lives are injured or lost, plus millions of dollars in repairs and lost products are incurred due to "third party" incidents--someone digging into a pipeline. Thousands of communications, some life-threatening, may be disrupted when expensive fiber-optic cables are damaged or severed. These types of excavation can be financially devastating to the responsible party. This safety program is an attempt to help those who do excavation work to avoid such situations.
Sponsors for the program include: ANR Pipeline Co., Enterprise Products Operating LP., Midwest Energy Inc., Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America., Northern Natural Gas Co., ONEOK Field Services., ONEOK NGL Pipeline LP and Southern Star Central Gas Pipeline Inc.
For more information call 800-982-8752 or visit our website at www.pipelinegroup.com.
Date: 9/22/05
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