The below information is the latest update as of NOON on
Friday November 30, 2018 regarding the Elyria gas outage situation. Columbia Gas is working to restore approximately
2,100 customers currently without natural gas service.
At this time, there are an estimated 240 Columbia employees and third-party contractors in Elyria assisting with the restoration efforts.
The first step in this process is to shut off service to all affected properties, which has been completed. The next step is to purge the system to remove all air from the lines. After this has been completed, we will slowly reintroduce gas to the system and our technicians will go door-to-door and manually re-establish service to our customers.
In an effort to re-establish service in the most efficient way possible, Columbia Gas has divided the affected area into three (3) zones, which are outlined on the map attached to this email. Columbia Gas is working to re-establish service to Zone Blue (1) first, followed by Zones Yellow (2) and Pink (3).
Zone 1 - Blue
Zone 2 - Yellow
Zone 3 - Pink
Although they cannot give a specific time for when each zone will be restored, they
hope to have customers in Zones Blue (1) and Yellow (2) restored by the end of
the day. Unfortunately, customers in Zone Pink (3) will likely not have service
until Saturday (12/1). Consequently, Columbia is targeting communications to
customers in Zone Pink (3) encouraging them to find additional housing
arrangements for the evening. (Columbia will reimburse customers for all
reasonable housing and meals throughout the outage.)
Elyrians interested in making other housing arrangements
at a hotel may call at 1-800-915-9161 or email ohlodging@nisource.com . Another option is a shelter that has been
established at Eastern Heights Junior High School - 528 Garford Avenue.
