Map Displays Natural Gas Leaks

Story Updated 1:41 PM Saturday, August 22, 2015

The Home Energy Efficiency Team (HEET) has published a map that displays natural gas leaks in Massachusetts. HEET used data reported from utility companies to create the map.

According to HEET, utilities only have to repair gas leaks that are considered to be potentially explosive. However, a HEET representative, Audrey Schulman, told The Boston Globe that natural gas leaks are harmful to both public health and the environment.

According to the map, Medford has 249 gas leaks, the oldest of which is from 1990.

Medford’s gas leak map can be viewed here.

In a statement posted to Facebook in response to The Globe article, Go Green Medford, an an outreach program from the Medford Office of Energy & Environment, the Energy Committee and the Conservation Commission, said Medford’s DPW “is talking about these gas leaks, looking at how they are killing our trees, and trying to figure out how to most effectively deal with them.”

– InsideMedford.com