Gas leak diverts traffic in Derby

By Register Staff
DERBY — A natural gas leak in the Roosevelt Drive area caused traffic to be diverted for several hours Tuesday morning.
Lt. Salvatore Frosceno said no one was injured. Police got a report of a gas odor, and determined there was a leak, he said.
The Police and Fire departments responded. Traffic was diverted for about four hours while utility workers repaired the leak, police said.
Karen Samide, communications manager with Yankee Gas Co., said the damage to the company’s pipe was in the area of 200 Roosevelt Drive. Yankee Gas workers were on scene at 8:15 a.m. By noon, a crack in a gas main had been repaired and traffic was flowing again, she said. The company is investigating how the main was damaged.
“There was some work being done in the area, not by Yankee Gas, and we are not sure if that resulted in the damage to our pipe,” Samide said.