steppinthrax
Active Member
I'm not to familiar with the whole cove point talk. But someone in the gym that I go to indicated the plan was to run Nat Gas lines throughout Calvert County. Is this correct?
The initiative would target areas of Calvert County, which currently only has Washington Gas service in its central and southern portions.
Washington Gas Company has been trying to expand their existing infrastructure in to more rural areas including more of Calvert County.
Whoever you talked to apparently confused that with Dominion's new construction. Not directly related. Washington Gas has been around for a looooong time.
http://www.thebaynet.com/articles/0216/gascompanylookstoexpandincounty.html
Thanks,
Interesting, I put my address down and it says "Gas may be available". I put in all my information. I guess they are going to quote me a price to run a gas line. I suspect it's going to be expensive
The utilities usually look for an entire neighborhood to hook up. They need X out of Y houses to sign up to make it worth their while.
Good luck! NG is what I'd be using if we could get it. That will never happen where we are now though.Thanks,
Interesting, I put my address down and it says "Gas may be available". I put in all my information. I guess they are going to quote me a price to run a gas line. I suspect it's going to be expensive
Thanks,
Ok, now I'm interested in the gas expansion. I'm about a few miles from Dunkirk town center. Most of those places have Nat gas right? What's the wait to run some down south?
No they don't. Well not unless you count propane tanks.
This has been a pipe dream, as it were, for decades. Never going to happen.
Propane and NG are two very different things, of course.
Are you calling it a pipe dream because WashGas never received approval to expand?...or because you think they wouldn't expand even if they had approval to do so? That 2016 article suggested that WashGas was pretty keen on expanding their network.
I saw the same article too.
http://www.thebaynet.com/articles/0216/gascompanylookstoexpandincounty.html
It may take time. Yeah I can get a big propane tank out the house, but that dosen't work well for gas furnace etc...
Propane costs roughly twice what NG does on an equivalent BTU basis. That's why it would be great to see access to NG expanded.
I would suspect so given the fact that you need a truck to come deliver it and the limitation you have with it. You'd only really run a stove/fireplace with it. You would not have enough capacity for a gas furnace!
Propane and NG are two very different things, of course.
Are you calling it a pipe dream because WashGas never received approval to expand?...or because you think they wouldn't expand even if they had approval to do so? That 2016 article suggested that WashGas was pretty keen on expanding their network.
You can easily run a household on propane, you just run a larger line ( and sometimes up the psi ) from the tank to the house. I have a friend that runs a 3,000 sf colonial on propane, furnace,dryer,stove, outside grill and tankless hot water.
Not alot different from NG
You can easily run a household on propane, you just run a larger line ( and sometimes up the psi ) from the tank to the house. I have a friend that runs a 3,000 sf colonial on propane, furnace,dryer,stove, outside grill and tankless hot water.
Not alot different from NG
I'm calling it a pipe dream because the time to do it was 30 years ago before the buildup. Now, unless they do a horizontal drill, roads and yards and all kind of infrastructure would need to be torn up. And replaced.
The cost to do so would make even the 1% living in Ferry Landing Woods blanch.
Wait until the State forces the County to put in water and sewer in Dunkirk. That's just over the horizon.