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What Lies Beneath: W5


Catalogue Number:  CTV585
Producer:  CTV
Producing Agencies:  CTV
Subject:  Criminal Justice & Law, Safety, Tech/Voc
Language:  English
Grade Level:  9 - 12, Post Secondary
Country Of Origin:  Canada
Copyright Year:  2013
Running Time:  10:04


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W5 takes viewers underground with a look at sewer pipes and the growing problem of gas lines punched through them. It’s called a cross-bore, out-of-sight and out-of-mind, unless someone makes the potentially explosive mistake of cutting through it. W5 speaks to Trista Meehan, a Minnesota woman who lost her home when it blew up after a plumber tried to clear the main sewer line. Canada’s gas companies have remarked that cross-bore awareness must become part of the DNA of anyone rooting around anywhere near a gas pipeline.



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