NEW HANOVER COUNTY — Piedmont Natural Gas will conduct routine infrastructure maintenance in the 8000 block of Sidbury Road starting Friday.
The work is expected to last through April 6, weather pending.
Crews will operate a flare stack — a vertical pipe ignited with a flame on top that will be visible to nearby neighbors. When lit it could produce a loud noise, and those in the vicinity may hear a whistling sound or smell natural gas.
The maintenance will be controlled, managed and monitored by Piedmont Natural Gas personnel and local fire departments.
A subsidiary of Duke Energy, Piedmont Natural Gas provides service to 1.1 million residential, commercial, industrial and power generation customers in North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.
Duke Energy is executing an aggressive clean energy transition to achieve its goals of net-zero methane emissions from its natural gas business by 2030 and net-zero carbon emissions from electricity generation by 2050.
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