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House, but not school, evacuated for gas leak
About 20 Columbia Gas customers, including Urbana High School, will be without gas service while workers repair and then test the safety of a broken gas line.
Workers are repairing the line, which was broken by construction crews working on Washington Avenue, and have shut down the gas service to those areas while doing so, said Ken Stammon, Columbia Gas spokesman.
The company will do door-to-door checks to make sure each customer can safely restore gas service before service will be fully fixed, said Stammon.
Urbana High School did not evacuate this morning for the potential gas leak, according to school officials.
Superintendent Susan McCarty said Tuesday morning that students were out of the building while officials looked into a gas leak near the school. A representative from McCarty’s office clarified later Tuesday that houses were evacuated but the school - which was not threatened by the potential leak - did not.
A construction crew working on Washington Avenue hit a gas line, said Stammon.
One home was evacuated. There are four in the vicinity of the leak but two are unoccupied right now and one is vacant, said Stammon.
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