Natural Gas System Rebuild

Minimal Disruption to Street Projects, Traffic

Entergy New Orleans is using a drilling technology called directional boring that eliminates trenching, the traditional and extremely disruptive method for installing pipe that tore up streets and made access to homes and businesses difficult. The combination of innovative drilling technology and modern distribution piping will virtually eliminate disruption in the construction phase and provide better reliability once completed.

• It will impact only small sections of sidewalks. This minimizes potential conflicts with future street repaving, water or sewer projects.

• Instead of using a single-main configuration, Entergy New Orleans installs two mains, one on each side of city streets. This configuration dramatically reduces the need to conduct street work, minimizing any disruption of traffic.

• Only small sections of sidewalks will be impacted. Cuts into the sidewalks will measure approximately 4 feet by 4 feet or 4 feet by 6 feet. The smaller cuts basically measure the size of a single sidewalk panel.

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