Issue - meetings

Helen Peile, Stakeholder and Community Manager, SGN, was in attendance for this item

Ms Peile presented on what happens when water enters the gas network. The contents of her presentation included:

·       What happens when there is water ingress.

·       Communication with affected customers and incident support.

·       How SGN finds and removed water from gas network.

Further to questions from Members, it was noted that:

·       Water ingress was discovered when there was interruption to the supply.

·       Risks were being mitigated because SGN were 23 years into a 30 year programme to replace the older pipes. There were still a lot of cast iron and metal pipes and replacing these was a problem for the road network.

·       It was felt that climate change did affect the condition of metal pipes but risk would decrease with time as the replacements were made.

3) RESOLVED to note the content of the presentation.