[vhfpmr (OP)]

There's a gas leak on the main road near here, they've only been trying to find it for the last 15 months.

They came out in March last year and stayed until June, then they were back July - September, then Nov/Dec, then January - March. By that time it looked like they'd finally fixed it, but I've just walked past this afternoon, and they're back again.

As far as I can tell, the nub of their problem is that the gas would appear to be leaking into the BT cable duct, and then by the time it's travelled for hundreds of yards up & down the duct, it's effectively disguised the location of the leak. They started poking sniffer probes down boreholes drilled in the road, then digging holes looking for it, then after a few months they seemed to be just speculatively replacing sections of pipe and waiting to see what happens.

They could have renewed the main along the whole street in all the time they've been there.

[Zer0]

Why hasn't anyone come up with an X-ray sorta goggles to detect gas leaks Visually?


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(I've got this Weird feelin, that I've said something exactly similar before, donno why)
Deja Vu!