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CAUD Natural Gas System in county will happen, GM Stone says A better way would be for a merger, GM Lenny Stone says, and he said he and his board are still open to a deal with the City of Columbia to buy the existing City Gas Department. But if that isn't possible, Stone has the backing of CAUD's Board of Directors to go move ahead unilaterally. The scope of the first phase is included in this article. Having gas distribution across the county would have a very significant, positive impact on building and business, perhaps more so than any other recruiting effort could yield. Click on headline for complete story By Ed Waggener CAUD General Manager Lenny Stone, said in a followup interview on Monday, April 9, 2018, that he's confident CAUD will have a natural gas system in the county, though progress on it becoming a reality has been slower than he'd hoped. Already, he's secured, for all practical purposes, a connection to the gas pipeline running across Milltown Church Road and has defined the area the new service will target. The tie in is on Dimple Graves Road. From there, he said, the new lines will go in two directions: 1) To and along Milltown Road, taking a total of 14 chicken barns, 8 owned by Barney Janes and six by the Grider Bros, Donnie and Ronnie. This extension could also serve the Milltown United Methodist Church. 2) The line would extend in the other direction along Milltown Church Road to the Edmonton Road, and then East, past another church, Living by Faith, to the new Pineview Shopping Center for a total of 9.1 miles. Along the 9.1 miles, he said, there are over 140 residences and five shops, as well. He said that the Public Service Commission has told him of a couple of obstacles to the establishment of the natural gas pipeline are ones which can be overcome. The first is the matter of petitioners who are interested in being served. Already, countywide, an ongoing survey has over 1800 signers, and he feels certain the 50 needed for this first line will either in the existing list, or quick attainable. The second has to do with an outdated rule that utilities such as CAUD would have to be supplied by natural gas in the county served. He is being encouraged to challenge that rule. (And one wonders if also, if the possibility of natural gas production locally might not be an opportunity. There is natural gas here, and some buildings are heated by it.) GM Stone said that it would be fairly simple for the county to have one-stop utility service through a merger of the City of Columbia's Gas Department with CAUD. Many believe there was an oral agreement with the City to sell that system to the County at the time of the merger - within one year, when then Mayor Bell said, "We don't need two sets of little red trucks running around the county." The failure is what happens so often in expressions of good intentions without specificity in contracts. Many remember the Columbia/Adair Utilities Commission promising that it's highest priority was to redo the city's aging water and sewer system. Money was obtained for that - enough to have completed the system, and at times such as on the Burkesville Street Phase for over $200,000 less than the project now costs - AND to have completed the Tutt Street, Curry Street, and Bomar Heights areas. But that ship has now sailed. Mr. Stone, in answer to a question, said he'd be willing to discuss ways to make gas department mergers a possibility, including the trades which could include the abandoned City Water Plant building and land now committed to a kayaking/park area. He, and others, believe that to have natural gas throughout the county would do more to stimulate business and building activity than any other move. As he spoke in the surprise interview, he was in the conference room of the utilities headquarters on Grant Lane, poring over maps, already envisioning the natural gas system a reality, ready to happen one phase at a time. This story was posted on 2018-04-11 05:53:18
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