Components of a Clairemont neighborhood had been constructed atop a key strategic Navy gasoline pipeline, and now the service is planning to maneuver it from beneath houses, a faculty and a church, in line with Navy data.
The pipeline connects Naval Base Level Loma to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar and is used to move jet and diesel gasoline between the bases, the Navy mentioned.
The 17-mile lengthy, 8-inch pipeline was inbuilt 1954 simply as Clairemont was being developed as a part of the post-World Struggle II suburban housing increase. The Navy was granted easements by the town to construct the pipeline. Nevertheless, over the many years residential improvement has encroached on the these easements, the service mentioned.
Helen Haase, a Naval Base Level Loma spokesperson, mentioned the encroachments had been solely found in 2011.
“We coordinate repeatedly and ceaselessly with stakeholders to speak our mission wants, however city improvement could be widespread and difficult to observe and prohibit,” she mentioned.
It is a downside, the Navy says, as a result of it could actually’t entry the pipeline to conduct inspections or make repairs.
The pipeline passes straight beneath a home on Cannington Drive close to Interstate 805 earlier than passing beneath elements of a number of different houses and a Mormon church on Mount Abernathy Avenue. It then follows Mount Abernathy and Balboa avenues earlier than turning south on Genesee Avenue and chopping beneath the north finish of the Excessive Tech Excessive Faculty campus.
The Navy needs to construct new sections of pipeline chopping off the sections between Cannington and Mount Abernathy and beneath Excessive Tech Excessive Faculty, in line with an environmental evaluation launched Monday.
The Navy’s proposed plan is to re-route the pipeline northwest at Cannington then south beneath Mount Abernathy to bypass the neighborhood. At Excessive Tech Excessive Faculty, it proposes to re-route it west beneath Mount Alifan Drive reconnecting with the unique pipeline beneath Mount Acadia Boulevard.
“The proposed motion would deal with main encroachments at Excessive Tech Excessive and the Cannington Drive areas by setting up new underground pipeline segments throughout the Metropolis of San Diego right-of-way, away and out from beneath college, church, and residential properties,” mentioned Helen Haase, a Naval Base Level Loma spokesperson, in an e-mail.
The pipeline would not current a hazard to the neighborhood at the moment, the Navy mentioned in its report, however a 2018 inside pipeline inspection discovered a number of “anomalies” within the neighborhood of the Excessive Tech Excessive Faculty and Cannington Drive encroachments. Nevertheless, none of them exceed acceptable limits, in line with the report.
One other part of the pipeline was relocated in 2018 as a consequence of encroachments in Level Loma alongside the La Playa waterfront, Haase mentioned.
The pipeline operates 10 to 12 hours per day, six day per week, the Navy mentioned. The Navy anticipates beginning development through the summer time of 2024 and expects it to final about six months.
This story initially appeared in San Diego Union-Tribune.
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