12/4/12 - The Enbridge Pipeline will pay Livingston County more than $36,000 to make use of some additional land as it crosses the Spencer J. Hardy Airport. That deal was approved by the County Commission last night. The pipeline was given a seven-day window to cross the airportâs runway, and Airport Manager Mark Johnson tells WHMI that the company found it could save time by using a 1.85-acre plot of land to preassemble sections of pipe. Enbridge will combine the segments into pieces three times longer than normal before placing them. With that accomplished, workers will only have to make three welds after putting the segments in the ground as opposed to nine, speeding up the process considerably. Johnson says it is not known how much time this will shave off the process, but he confirms that the $36,000 price tag for the pipeline company is in keeping with the amount it paid per acre in the original agreement to cross the airport. (TD)
↧