Crews are getting back to work replacing a gas pipeline in Montgomery and Greene Counties.
This is the final year of CenterPoint Energy’s three-year replacement project.
Residents on North Linda Drive in Bellbrook found out the construction of the pipeline would be going on at the begging of February.
Centerpoint Energy is replacing portions of a 20-inch gas pipeline in Bellbrook as part of a modernization project.
Alyssia Oshodi, communications manager for CenterPoint, said they are replacing about 30 miles total for this project.
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The repairs on the line are being done completely by CenterPoint Energy.
No funding for the project is coming out of the city’s pocket.
Rob Schommer, city manager of Bellbrook, echoed this.
“It is 100 percent their project as a private company,” Schommer told News Center 7′s Kayla McDermott.
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Some residents are starting to get fed up with the construction in their community.
“Just the noise will be it for me,” Bellbrook resident Susan Verdier said.
Verdier said that she can hear bangs and beeps from the construction trucks throughout the day.
Along with the noise, some homeowners will have part of their property dug up.
Verdier said that a whole line of trees has been taken out in the neighborhood, some more than 60 years old.
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CenterPoint said they have in the past, and will continue to, take care of any damage they have caused.
“We will to the best of our ability attempt to restore property once we’ve completed that work,” Oshodi said.
But Verdier said this is not the case.
This is the second year land has been torn through for the pipe and she said the last time nothing was fixed.
CenterPoint Energy said that they coordinated it so that their work schedule would line up with the local schools’ spring break schedule to lessen the amount of traffic on the road.
The project could still take a couple of months before it is finished.
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