Thursday, February 22, 2007

Does this qualify as a "force majeure"?

Utility: Water leak undermined gas pipeline

When workers began digging in the area they found that the gas line, buried 5 feet deep, had been undermined by a sinkhole caused by a leak from the water service line ... The water service pipe ran above the gas main.

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