Quite unlikely.or maybe a 54" line?
Having done over ninety projects for Columbia Gas of Ohio in the past four years, I would say that no one has a gas line this large running through their back yard. The OP can find out this information by simply asking the gas company, which is still unidentified.
Lines 36" and larger are major utility thoroughfares and now fall under the Department of Homeland Security which probably moves discussion out of this forum and into a whole new world![]()
you mean my dads neighbor is now under the scrutiny of homeland security?
I do not have quick access to any LNG maps but since Ohio used to be a major player for gas wells, I find it hard to believe that there are no major pipelines running through Ohio but if it is so, it is so.
I know there is one this size, or close running through many yards in my area (SW Michigan. major pipeline running from (if I remember correctly) Wisconsin through Michigan and I believe going to Canada.
A good point by jk.I do not have quick access to any LNG maps but since Ohio used to be a major player for gas wells, I find it hard to believe that there are no major pipelines running through Ohio but if it is so, it is so.
Of course major gaslines run across Ohio. They run through some back yards but the odds are very small, maybe one in 100,000 backyards.
Most of us in Ohio and Michigan have a gasline easement at the front or back of our property.
Mine is at the back. It's a four inch line. Most subdivision plats contain these general utility easements. The odds of having a 16" or larger gasline running across your back yard are maybe one in 100,000.
Let's return this to the OP who needs to get some more information out to us. I suspect that this is only the usual backyard subdivision easement just based on simple probabbility.
We have gone too far with speculation at this point. Let's hear back from the OP.
agreed.
I was just trying to make the point; depending on what is really going on, 2 1/2 months is not entirely out of the question. Not typical but not impossible either.
the rest of the info (seed v. sod, no compensation for loss of yard use) is typical and most likely correct. As LS stated, refer to the easement documents for any requirements of any specific or required action on the part of the gas company to repair any yard damage. He sees a lot more actual documents than I ever will but in my experience, requiring sod is very unusual.