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MyspaceA backhoe digging a culvert at the intersection of Butterfly and High roads in Montecito accidentally hit a gas line at around 10:45 a.m. Tuesday morning and knocked out gas service to 28 homes in the area.
Crews are working to repair the line, but Geri Ventura with the Montecito Fire Protection District — explaining Southern California Gas Company personnel need to enter each individual property to turn the pilot lights back on — said it will be “some time” before all the work is done.
While the leak has been secured, a number of intersections — Butterfly Lane/Oriole Road; Butterfly Lane/Middle Road; High Road/Middle Road — remain closed to traffic until the area is fully secured.
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I walk by here every day. I saw that they had done an underground survey in the area. You know, the "legal graffiti" that they spray paint on the street in multi-colors, and don't arrest anyone. After all that, a gas line was ruptured digging. Who is accountable? The operator on the County-owned backhoe (yes it had their sticker),or the people who did the underground survey (don't use the excuse that the line wasn't installed where the drawing said; that's what detectors are for).
Also strange is the Caution Tapes and No Trespassing Signs that have been along the adjacent property owner's "lot line" since about 3 weeks ago. What's that about? The property owner doesn't want the County putting the culvert on "private property"?
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February 26, 2013 at 3:49 p.m. (Suggest removal)