Residents of eight Cape Cod towns will have to wait years before new natural gas lines can be installed after National Grid instituted a moratorium on new hookups.
The company will not install any new gas connections for five to seven years after the Department of Public Utilities and National Grid found potentially faulty welds — some almost 60 years old — in a 21-mile pipeline on the Cape, forcing National Grid to lower the pressure in the transmission line, which cut the amount of gas it can carry.
The pipeline will not be able to supply gas to more customers until infrastructure fixes are made, work that has no exact timetable.
"We're going to have to do some pretty significant infrastructure enhancement work," said National Grid spokesman Jake Navarro.
The work will prevent potential customers in Dennis, Harwich, Brewster, Chatham, Orleans, Eastham, Barnstable and Yarmouth from hooking up to the gas supply.
Navarro said National Grid has about 100,000 customers on the Cape, and was adding between 800 and 1,000 each year.
DPU spokeswoman Mary-Leah Assad said in a statement that the agency is looking into the situation.
"The DPU's Pipeline Safety & Engineering Division is engaged in an ongoing investigation to determine the integrity of the gas main and ensure it is in compliance with federal and state regulations," she said.
National Grid does not believe any other pipelines in the state will need the same kind of repairs, Navarro said.
Meanwhile, Nstar yesterday filed for a 12 percent delivery rate increase, citing rising costs to deliver gas to homes. That comes after Nstar said it would increase its supply rates by 29 percent due to rising demand for natural gas.
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