By GARANCE BURKE and JASON DEAREN 2010-09-14T10:46:24Z SAN BRUNO, Calif. (AP) -- The tragic explosion of a gas pipeline in a San Francisco suburb has shed light on a problem usually kept underground: Communities have expanded over pipes built decades earlier when no one lived there....
Aging Gas Pipe At Risk Of Explosion Nationwide
By GARANCE BURKE and JASON DEAREN, Associated Press
Tue, 09/14/2010 - 3:46am
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