UPDATE: MidAmerican Has Restored Natural Gas Service To All But Ten Boyden Customers

Boyden, Iowa — As of Monday morning, all but 10 of the 272 MidAmerican Energy natural gas customers in Boyden have had their natural gas service restored.

Late Friday afternoon, a construction crew managed to rupture a major Northern Natural Gas line southwest of Boyden. That line is the one that pumps natural gas to MidAmerican Energy’s gas customers in the Boyden area.

A MidAmerican spokesman said employees of the utility began going door-to-door once the pipeline was repaired, checking to make sure that it was safe to restore service to each individual customer. As of Saturday afternoon service had been restored to 208 of the 272 customers affected. As of Monday morning, all but ten of the remaining customers has had their natural gas service restored.

MidAmerican says that employees have visited each of the remaining ten locations, and found nobody home. As a result they have tagged those properties, instructing residents to contact the utility and set up a time for a MidAmerican technician to come out, inspect their system, and restore natural gas service to them.

Coincidentally, Friday’s pipeline rupture was very close to another break that caused another gas outage in 2016.

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Original Post 4:05pm 11/16/19

Boyden, Iowa — A construction crew struck a major natural gas feed line southwest of Boyden Friday afternoon, disrupting gas service to 272 MidAmerican Energy customers.

A spokesman for MidAmerican Energy tells KIWA that around 2:00 Friday afternoon the construction crew severed a major transmission line owned by Northern Natural Gas, near the intersection of 330th Street and Jay Avenue. According to MidAmerican Energy, that line provides natural gas to MidAmerican’s Boyden customers.

The MidAmerican spokesman says repairs to the gas line were completed about 1:15 Saturday morning. Some 272 MidAmerican Energy customers were left without natural gas service by the pipeline break, and MidAmerican employees began the process of visiting each customer and checking to make sure it was safe to restore natural gas service to their home or business.

As of mid-afternoon Saturday, MidAmerican says natural gas service had been restored to 208 of the 272 affected customers. The utility says that some customers weren’t able to be reached, and each of those customers had their home or business tagged by the Utility, notifying the customer that they would need to call the utility and set a time for re-connection.

The MidAmerican spokesman KIWA talked to said this break in the natural gas line is close to the location of another break that caused a service disruption back in 2016.

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