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La Porte council approves Lindy pipeline permit after safety questions about shutoff placement and pressure
Summary
After questions about valve locations and operating pressure, the La Porte City Council approved a Lindy Incorporated permit to install about 6.91 miles of a 20-inch hydrogen pipeline, with staff noting one shutoff at the north end and burial depth of 4 feet.
Councilmembers pulled a pipeline permit from the consent agenda to ask staff and the applicant detailed safety questions before voting to approve it. The request by Lindy Incorporated would authorize approximately 6.91 miles of 20-inch hydrogen pipeline within La Porte city limits; staff said about three miles of the project lie inside the city and that typical operating pressures could reach about 1,300 psi.
Councilmember Guerra asked specifically about shutoff valve locations and operating pressure, saying recent local pipeline incidents raised concern. A city staff presenter described the route and said, “So project starts up, North Of 225 and goes south running roughly between Barria Boulevard and the airport…there's less than 0.5 of it, about a 3 mile stretch of the 6.5 miles that is actually within the city.” The applicant, Paul Grandolph, told council the pipeline is being “buried completely. To a minimum distance of 4 feet,” and that it was engineered to withstand pressures greater than normal operating levels. After the exchange, councilmember Guerra moved to approve Item 5b and the motion carried.
