Yesterday, in front of the Newton Education Center, 100 Walnut Street, #CityOfNewtonMA, where #Eversource said then retracted, that the April 6, #WalnutStreetGasExplosion was triggered, I found #NationalGrid gas leaking into an #Eversource utility hole (toward middle of the street) near the flooded storm drain in foreground. Gas was steady at 6,000 ppm (3000x ambient). On a prior visit it exceeded 10,000 ppm.

Any gas leaking into high voltage buried electric infrastructure = unacceptable risk.

Since I had already called 911 once over weekend and nothing was apparently done to remedy the situation by #NationalGrid, this time I called #Eversource to say there was a strong odor of gas in its Eversource utility hole. Tellingly, the person told me this was a #NationalGrid gas issue and transferred me directly to #NationalGrid. The call record exists and demonstrates both utilities know that there is a problem with #NationalGrid gas leaking into #Eversource high voltage electric infra.