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GAS tubes?

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  • 10-06-2012 9:30pm
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    aoshea83
    Registered Users Posts: 585 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    Anyone know what the white pipes marked GAS are for all along the road from Midleton to Carrigtohill?

    Tried googling it but no answer


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    Cedrus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Cedrus


    I was wondering the same, they're all over the place not just on that road. My best guess is that they're marker posts for a high pressure main but I don't know.


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    have_a_go_hero
    Registered Users Posts: 133 ✭✭have_a_go_hero


    a few years ago there was a new pipeline laid from whitegate to somewhere up the country and the line basically follows past carrig etc,, the markers are some sort of valve or monitioring point.
    hope that helps!


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    Cedrus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Cedrus


    have_a_go_hero wrote: »
    a few years ago there was a new pipeline laid from whitegate to somewhere up the country and the line basically follows past carrig etc,, the markers are some sort of valve or monitioring point.
    hope that helps!

    I can't see why you'd need that many monitoring points and no need at all for valve out in fields. :confused:


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    Jeju
    Registered Users Posts: 616 ✭✭✭Jeju


    Look no further Boards Infrastructure has the answer..

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=77501425


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    Poulgorm
    Registered Users Posts: 779 ✭✭✭Poulgorm


    Cedrus wrote: »
    I can't see why you'd need that many monitoring points and no need at all for valve out in fields. :confused:

    They are just marker posts, to make sure everyone can easily identify the transmission (high pressure) pipelines. The pipelines are laid in straight lines between the marker posts. Some of these pipelines can be at 1,000 psi - not to be messed with. If you damaged one of those things with a JCB or something, it would have painful / tragic consequences for those in the vicinity.

    Also, it makes them easily identifiable from the air - they are surveyed periodically by helicopter, to ensure that nobody is building any type of structure on them, or deep excavations, that sort of thing.


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