Atmos Energy Works to Restore Natural Gas Service in Durango

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Darwin Winfield

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Atmos Energy Works to Restore Natural Gas Service in Durango

DURANGO, Colo (September 27, 2016) – Atmos Energy is working to restore natural gas service to several hundred customers following a natural gas outage just after 12:45 p.m. Tuesday. Atmos Energy will have trained technicians going door-to-door to relight natural gas appliances to businesses and residential customers throughout the evening.

"If you do not have natural gas service after returning home from work today, please call our customer service center at 1-888-286-6700," said Darwin Winfield, Manager of Public Affairs.

The cause of the outage has been pinpointed to an ally located between 4^th and 5^th Avenues where a contractor crew accidentally hit a natural gas line.

Winfield says if you smell gas, 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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