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PUBLIC AWARENESS & SAFETY

Pipeline Location

There are four main types of pipelines: crude oil, liquid, gas and chemical. Most run underground, and are clearly identified by markers along routes that identify their approximate – not exact – location. Typically, markers are found where a pipeline intersects a street, highway or railway. Pipeline markers do not indicate depth or number of pipelines in the vicinity, and the pipeline may not follow a straight course between markers. Every marker provides the name of the operating company, the product transported, and an emergency contact phone number.

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Pipeline Operator Contact Information

Emergency Contact Directory:

  • City of Brackettville 8am-5pm           830-563-2412

  • After Hours Emergency 5pm-8am    830-563-5882

Types of Markers

  • Pipeline Marker: The most common marker, it contains operator information, product type, and an emergency contact number. They are typically yellow, black and red – but size, shape and color may vary.

  • Aerial Marker: Patrol planes that monitor pipeline routes use this skyward-facing marker.

  • Casing Vent Marker: This marker indicates that a pipeline (protected by a steel outer casing) passes beneath a nearby roadway, railway or other crossing.

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DO's

  • Without risking injury, turn off equipment and eliminate ignition sources

  • Leave the area by foot immediately. Try to direct bystanders to leave the area, and attempt to stay upwind

  • From a safe location, immediately call 911 or your local emergency response number. Then, look for pipeline markers and notify the pipeline operator

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Smell:
Natural gas and highly volatile liquids are often colorless, tasteless and odorless. Gas transmission/gas gathering pipelines are odorless, but may have a hydrocarbon smell.

  • Unusual smell

  • Petroleum odor

  • Gaseous odor

 

Sound:

  • Quiet hissing to loud roar, depending on the size of the leak and pipeline system

  • Light a match, flip an electrical switch, ring a doorbell, or start a motor vehicle or electrical equipment

  • Come into direct contact with escaping liquids or gas

  • Drive into a leak vapor cloud

  • Attempt to operate pipeline valves

  • Attempt to extinguish a petroleum product or natural gas fire


Recognizing a Pipeline Emergency

Sight:

  • Liquid pools

  • Continuous bubbling in wet or flooded areas

  • Oily sheen on water or surfaces

  • Vaporous fogs or blowing dirt around a pipeline area

  • Dead or discolored plants in an otherwise healthy area

  • Frozen ground in warm weather

 

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DO NOT

Pipeline Operator Contact Information

Emergency Contact Directory:

  • City of Brackettville 8am-5pm           830-563-2412

  • After Hours Emergency 5pm-8am    830-563-5882


Non-emergency contact information:

  • Phone: 830-563-2412

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