{"id":20224,"date":"2022-02-18T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T01:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=20224"},"modified":"2022-02-18T20:33:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T01:33:34","slug":"florida-gas-transmission-pipeline-testing-to-close-several-north-lakeland-roads-for-four-hours-early-monday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/02\/18\/florida-gas-transmission-pipeline-testing-to-close-several-north-lakeland-roads-for-four-hours-early-monday-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Gas Transmission Pipeline Testing to Close Several North Lakeland Roads for Four Hours Early Monday Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>In the early morning hours of Monday, February 21, Florida Gas Transmission Company (FGT) will test nearly 6 miles of its natural gas pipeline from Kathleen in Polk County to Plant City in Hillsborough County using pressurized water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"385\" height=\"131\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/download-1.png?resize=385%2C131&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/download-1.png?w=385&amp;ssl=1 385w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/download-1.png?resize=300%2C102&amp;ssl=1 300w\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FGT pipeline crosses under the following Polk County roadways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>County Road 35A (Kathleen Road)<\/li><li>Youngway Drive<\/li><li>Lewellyn Road<\/li><li>Rushing Road<\/li><li>Shady Oak Drive East<\/li><li>Mossy Oak Drive<\/li><li>Shady Oak Drive West<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Flaggers supported by law enforcement will control two-way traffic where required and emergency vehicles will be provided access at all times. The test will take place midnight to 4:00 a.m. Monday morning. If the test does not pass, a second night of testing will be necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This federally mandated testing is a standard industry best-practice using pressurized water to confirm the safety and reliability of the system. The natural gas will be removed from the pipeline, with service maintained on another system; and the integrity of the pipeline will be tested under pressure for a fixed period of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information about the test, please contact Mr. Terry Coleman at 844-FGT-INFO (844-348-4636)or you can visit the FGT website at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u=https-3A__fgthydrotest.com_home_central-2Dflorida_hillsborough-2Dpolk_&amp;d=DwMFAg&amp;c=j9YNQVTYIohH8cYE_3mLmw&amp;r=SqPvzovXmxwkyFfT5BJK9_XKe04mX30EbYhH8jgX1OU&amp;m=APqsQIbSlFX-rk23zX19kambQnRjzgmGTcvSGaQS6lE-BtPZo4S-z298-QRyT8e2&amp;s=-eGSXG4q54tvpO7jpZnjjFBP1epqWSZxPwB-LLQSwkU&amp;e=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/fgthydrotest.com\/home\/central-florida\/hillsborough-polk\/<\/a>&nbsp;or by contacting Bill Skelton with the Polk County Roads &amp; Drainage Division at 863-535-2200.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;In the early morning hours of Monday, February 21, Florida Gas Transmission Company (FGT) will test nearly 6 miles of its natural gas pipeline from Kathleen in Polk County to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[2407],"class_list":["post-20224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-florida-gas-transmission-pipeline-testing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}