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APPROVED 10/13/2014 OC Board of Adjustment – 8/27/2014 Page 39 of 64 don’t know at 20, 25 feet from their easement. One of the issues I wanted to talk about and I think that 1 I’ll contact people on the Planning Board maybe the County Commissioners about the idea of starting to 2 do some kind of consultation creating a consultation zone that I think these people know about where 3 you don’t allow homes to encroach on these easements that once you allow encroachment that’s when 4 things happen. I am going to speak to safety. 5 6 Larry Wright: Are you a safety officer? 7 8 Ann Oliver: No, but I have done a lot of research. 9 10 Larry Wright: You have to be have credentials to be able to address these elements. We can only take 11 expert testimony. 12 13 Ann Oliver: Well you can look at these pictures and tell me if this is safe. 14 15 Mark Micol: Is that on the existing pipeline? 16 17 Ann Oliver: These, and there’s one in here that PSNC, they had an explosion, and this year in Asheville 18 they, and I’ve got information about that. I’ve got the, on your CD, you would have the report that they 19 filed with DOT, USDOT. That was an old pipe, that pipeline was damaged in 2003. It was two pipelines. 20 They installed one in 2003 when they did it they damaged an existing pipeline that I think was installed in 21 1963. They inspected that pipeline that erupted twice a year. Their inspections did not reveal any kind 22 of corrosion or damage but that pipeline exploded. 23 24 Matthew Rhoads: Following up on what you were saying, she’s not an expert in pipeline safety so we 25 believe that any of this is not legally competent. We object to the entire PowerPoint that has been 26 handed up. It’s all hearsay, internet research, we can’t cross examine anybody who wrote any of those 27 things. As to the pipeline in Ashville, my only comment to that would be the one that was damaged 10 28 years later had an issue because of the damage that would have been detected had they been able to 29 pig that line which this line can be pigged. So that damage could not be detected in line it would have 30 been detected in this line. That’s just the nature of progressing technology. 31 32 Ann Oliver: Is the 10 inch pipeline being pigged? 33 34 Matthew Rhoads: The 10 inch pipeline at the end of this project will be able to be pigged and it is 35 currently not able to be pigged. So this will increase the safety of not only the new pipeline but the 36 existing pipeline. 37 38 Ann Oliver: So, in my testimony, I pulled a lot of information from the USDOT’s website, from the 39 pipeline and hazardous material safety administration, there’s a lot of information in here with supporting 40 reports that are peer reviewed that I would like y’all to take a look at. These guys know that there things 41 called a high consequence area they have to by regulation, look at where their pipelines are and 42 determine if any of them are running through what is called a high consequence area. Is that not 43 correct? All of their pipelines are required to run a calculation to determine what the potential impact 44 radius is and that determines if there is an explosion how far out this 45 46 Matthew Rhoads: Again, I object. She’s not an expert on this that’s actually not what the PIR does. 47 48 Larry Wright: Right, and the only thing we can go by is what our County issues with safety documents to 49 us, our Planning Board issues. If you want to bring this up at one of their future hearings or the utilities 50 commission by all means do it but this is not within our power. 51 52 Ann Oliver: Ok, fine. I would like to know what the PIR is for my pipeline that runs through my land 53 anyone that goes through. I want to know what the PIR is combined with two pipelines. 54 55