Atmos Energy Crews Team-Up to Restore Natural Gas Service to Hundreds in Durango

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Darwin Winfield

970–518-5339

Atmos Energy Crews Team-Up to Restore Natural Gas Service to Hundreds in Durango

DURANGO, Colo (Sept. 27, 2016) –Atmos Energy crews from across the state will be scattered throughout Durango tonight as they work to restore natural gas service to nearly 800 businesses and residences.

“We are asking our customers to please be patient as we work through the night to restore their natural gas service,” said Darwin Winfield, Atmos Energy Manager of Public Affairs.

The affected customers are located South on E. 5th Street to the North at W. 21st Street. Then from the West on Camino Del Rio to E. 4th Avenue. The restoration process began at approximately 4 p.m. and may last well into the night.

“As part of normal operating procedures during an outage, a trained technician must first turn the gas off at each home and business so that we can safely purge the air from the line and then restore service. This process could take several hours.”

Atmos Energy is asking customers to please have someone 18 years or older at home in order to perform the restoration of natural gas services.

The outage occurred around 12:45 p.m. Tuesday when a contractor accidentally hit a natural gas line located in an alley between 4^th and 5^th Avenues. The gas line has been repaired.

Winfield says if you smell gas inside your home, please leave the area immediately and from a safe distance call 911 and the Atmos Energy emergency line at 1-866-322-8667.

About Atmos Energy

Atmos Energy Corporation, headquartered in Dallas, is one of the country's largest natural-gas-only distributors, serving more than 3 million natural gas distribution customers in about 1,400 communities in eight states from the Blue Ridge Mountains in the East to the Rocky Mountains in the West. Atmos Energy manages company-owned natural gas pipeline and storage assets, including one of the largest intrastate natural gas pipeline systems in Texas and also provides natural gas marketing and procurement services to industrial, commercial and municipal customers primarily in the Midwest and Southeast. For more information, visit www.atmosenergy.com.  Atmos Energy can also be accessed through social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.

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