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The cause of a gas-line rupture on Youngstown's South Side remains a mystery
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WORK ZONE: Crews from Dominion East Ohio are replacing a 16-inch high-pressure steel gas main that ruptured under Midlothian Boulevard, causing an explosion. It left an 8-foot-deep and 16-foot-wide crater in the eastbound curb lane of Midlothian at the Interstate 680 interchange.
YOUNGSTOWN — Crews from Dominion East Ohio will continue work Tuesday replacing a 16-inch high-pressure steel gas main that ruptured under Midlothian Boulevard, causing an explosion and a temporary evacuation of several dozen nearby homes.
“We’ve got to replace a 40-foot section of pipe,” said Neil Durbin, senior communications specialist for Dominion. Repair work by Dominion and a contractor will continue into Tuesday, he said.
A 2 a.m. Monday explosion left an 8-foot-deep and 16-foot-wide crater in the eastbound curb lane of Midlothian at the Interstate 680 interchange.
Durbin said he did not know what caused the pipe failure, and that the gas company will send the ruptured pipe to a laboratory to try to determine the cause.
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