The main pipe supplying gas to buildings.
the disruption has been caused by workers replacing a gas main
Example sentencesExamples
- East Riding Council says the work would have already begun had it not been for the delay caused by the gas main scheme.
- Investigators traced the source of the explosion to a fracture in a cast-iron gas main under the pavement.
- Forty tonnes of acrylic plastic sheeting were on fire with a ruptured gas main underneath which could not be isolated.
- The cause of the leak was a cracked gas main that had last been checked in January.
- Workers have completed repairs, but were today still pumping water out of the gas main before restoring supplies.
- Traffic is being diverted from the road for the next six weeks while Transco lays a new gas main.
- A family had a lucky escape when their kitchen collapsed into the cellar, severing a gas main.
- It was established that a gas main supplying their home had a large number of leaks.
- His alternative involved the link road moving much further away, but concerns were raised about the proximity of a high pressure gas main.
- He stressed there would be no reduction in the number of employees working on gas main maintenance or repairs.
- Traffic chaos is expected to hit south Essex as gas main work closes the A127 once again this weekend.