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Tomball hears $33 million gas master plan recommending new City Gate to shore up supply
Summary
Engineered Utility Solutions told Tomball City Council the city’s natural-gas distribution is adequate now but vulnerable at the North City Gate; a $33 million, 24-project capital-improvement program including a new City Gate 4 and two interconnects would increase redundancy and support expected 25% growth.
TOMBALL, Texas — Tomball’s city staff and consultants presented a multi-year natural-gas master plan Tuesday that officials said is aimed at preventing repeat outages and making the system resilient as the community grows.
Diana Perosa of Engineered Utility Solutions told council the city’s modeled baseline delivery was 180 MCF per hour and the master plan models a 25% growth scenario — a 225 MCF per hour peak — that revealed vulnerabilities, particularly at the North City Gate. “The baseline was established at 180 MCF an hour,” Perosa said, and the plan models a 225 MCF an hour peak to test system performance.
The consultants identified a lack of continuous north–south and east–west arterial pipelines and the prospect…
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