Colonial pipeline location around 40/42

Discussion in 'Discussion Group' started by jesse82nc, Nov 29, 2016.

  1. jesse82nc

    jesse82nc Well-Known Member

    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:
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  2. John Carr

    John Carr Well-Known Member

    Interesting. I just assumed it came up to Selma from the south.
     
  3. jesse82nc

    jesse82nc Well-Known Member

    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.
     
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  4. Rockyv58

    Rockyv58 Well-Known Member

    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
     
  5. BuzzMyMonkey

    BuzzMyMonkey Well-Known Member

    Yup
     
  6. jesse82nc

    jesse82nc Well-Known Member

    mid-late 60s and 70s mostly for the NC part. The first part of the line anywhere opened in the early 60s.
     
  7. jesse82nc

    jesse82nc Well-Known Member

    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.
     
  8. cynadon

    cynadon Well-Known Member

    we used to get harassed for riding the pipe line in the early 80's
     
  9. jesse82nc

    jesse82nc Well-Known Member

    Updated the map to include the Fayetteville Spur and Terminal as well.
     
  10. Harvey

    Harvey Well-Known Member

  11. jesse82nc

    jesse82nc Well-Known Member

    Updated to include the main pipeline from the NC/SC border to the NC/VA border. And a Spur in Charlotte.
     
  12. Keech

    Keech Member

    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?
     
  13. jesse82nc

    jesse82nc Well-Known Member

    Nope, just some small natural gas pipe.
     

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