Since it has been in the news a bit lately with a leak and then an explosion, I thought I would map out where the colonial pipeline runs through our area. I did the best I could with the information I had available. If someone knows of a discrepency, let me know. Here's the link to the map, you can move it around and zoom in. I have it mapped from Jordan Lake to the Selma Depot. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1GJODxGbGUvtyIHqj9I-SBojNwvI&usp=sharing And here's a small shot of it in the 40/42 area:
This isn't something new, this pipeline has been hear for many, many years. Decades even. The main pipeline runs southwest to northeast and passes on the west side of Greensboro. This is just a spur for the Selma Terminal.
If memory serves me, wasn't it put in place during WWII? Also the first couple of years that I lived out here (2000). I got some sort of documentation about the pipeline
mid-late 60s and 70s mostly for the NC part. The first part of the line anywhere opened in the early 60s.
Updated the map to include the run all the way from the Greensboro Terminal to the Selma Terminal, also added the Apex and RDU Terminals.
I believe there are plans for one or two of new ones along the I-85 corridor. Sadly, this is not one of them: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/w...es-belgiums-lifeblood-to-be-bottled.html?_r=0
Updated to include the main pipeline from the NC/SC border to the NC/VA border. And a Spur in Charlotte.
When the Sheets on Hwy. 42 and Cornwallis was starting to be built, some pipeline caused them to redesign the direction of store frontage. Was this the same pipeline?