Lowell Area Gas Modernization

Location: Tewksbury, Lowell 

Colonial Gas/National Grid Petition of Colonial Gas Company d/b/a National Grid for Approval to Construct and Operate a New Gas Pipeline in the City of Lowell and the Town of Tewksbury

1. Agency: Energy Facilities Siting Board (EFSB)
2. Company: Colonial Gas/National Grid
3. Docket Number: EFSB18-01, Filed 12/17/2022.
   EFSB approved Sept ’19; construction unknown
4. Description
   1. Replace portions of existing natural gas pipeline between Tewksbury Take Station in Tewksbury and the Wilbur Gas Regulator Station in Lowell 
   2. Facilitates use of of in-line inspection equipment 
   3. New 12-in coated-steel pipe for 2.4 miles starting south of interaction of I-495 and the Lowell Connector and extending northwest ot the Wilbur GRS 
   4. $32.8 million 
   5. Expected completion November 2020 
   6. Most recent filing 4/12/22 regarding Siting Board’s approval for pipeline replacement in Chelmsford and Lowell about archaeological monitoring program 
   7. 22 FSP (22-149) claimed it would be in-service 6/30/2023
5. Photographs
   1. Photos of proposed project https://fileservice.eea.comacloud.net/FileService.Api/file/FileRoom/16187056
6. Links
   1. National Grid Description
   2. Petition to Construct Slides
   3. Municipal Briefing Fall 2019 Slides
   4. Reforestation Monitoring Plan  
   5. MEPA Compliance 
   6. Notice of Public Comment Hearing from 2018 
   7. 2019 Petition to EFSB 
7. News
   1. A new tool to probe area gas lines 
   2. Westborough officials ‘extremely disappointed’ after Eversource meeting
8. Opposition groups
   1. Lowell Pipeline Resistance