RESIDENTS will know in the coming weeks whether their property will be serviced by Kerang’s reticulated natural gas network.
Brookfield Energy Australia’s project reached another significant milestone last week, with works beginning to install the pipework that will link properties to the town’s gas storage facility.
Crews are on track to complete the Tate Drive section of the main line this week, which will extend 2.2 kilometres from the storage plant to the edge of the central business area at Boundary Street.
Using a combination of drilling and trenches, up to 120 metres of pipe is being laid a day, with attention turning to the Boundary Street section of the main line in the coming days.
The main line – set to be completed by the end of the month – will be able to pipe reticulated natural gas throughout the town at a rate of no greater than 500 kilopascals.
Once the trunk line is complete, work will begin to install secondary lines that will pipe the gas to streets that are on the network.
“We are still finalising any potential changes to the final network design. This will be done within the next three to four weeks and will be released thereafter,” project manager, Todd Henderson said.
“Connections should start in the August/September period and the network will be completed in January 2017.”
