Where is the gas pipeline going?
National Grid is in the process of laying a 28 mile natural gas pipeline through the county.
It's going from Wormington in the north to Sapperton in the south.
The new pipeline will be buried underground and the land above will be reinstated and returned to its original condition when the work is complete.
National Grid hopes it'll be done by Autumn 2010 and have put .
updated Tuesday 18th (andTuesday 25th May with new photo)
Dave from Tetbury emailed.
" I travel along the Withington - Andoversford road every day and have witnessed the laying of this Gas Pipeline by National Grid first hand.
Make no mistake, it is a huge project. As I rise over the brow of a hill just after Withington, the evidence of the work is apparent.
It cuts a huge swathe right through this beautiful Cotswold landscape .... A 20 yards brown scorch mark visible from Shipton to Colesbourne ..... some 4 miles ...... a dreadful eyesore.
How the National Grid can say "Care for the environment is extremely important to National Grid" is beyond me.
It will take years for this disfigurement to be eradicated naturally."
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Comment number 1.
At 7th Mar 2011, Ben wrote:I wonder how people think pipes of this size can be laid without first digging a trench and subsequently filling it in.
I regularly walk near parts of the project and can only say that the care taken to restore the ground is excellent - most of it will be invisible by this summer.
Well done National Grid.
PS I live in Andoversford which has no mains Gas supply.......
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