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Show Colony Explains Pipeline Plans at Moab Meeting l Officials of Colony v.elopment. Denver, :., were in Moab Wed-;iiy Wed-;iiy evening. Oct. 24 . explain plans and an- ier questions con- corning an oil pipeline it plans to build across an 1S1 -mile MreU-h between be-tween Grand Valley, Co. and Lisbon Valley, It. Officials of the company, com-pany, plus a loam ot specialists from Utah State University, who conducted a 3 - month study of the route, gave summaries of theirareas of work and findings , and answered questions of those attending. Most questions dealt with possibility pos-sibility of breaks in the line, and how the company com-pany plans to prevent oi deal with Jv.-m. Lloy d Foy . Colony 's pipeline specialist, stated that he could design de-sign and build a pipeline capaple of withstanding the impact of the worst earthquake ever recorded. re-corded. 8.5 on the Rich-ter Rich-ter scale. He also explained ex-plained that the pipeline designed for this project pro-ject will have a wall thickness of .375 inches, except where it crosses the Colorado River, water drainages and known fault lines. In these areas the pipe will be one half-inch thick, he said. A dinner was sponsored bv Colony for interested parties in Southeastern Utah, and many questions . were asked of personnel before the group moved to the City Council Chamber for a public mooting and the showing of tho Colony film. "Oil Shale, an Environmental Dialogue." The proposed Colony pipeline would run west from the plant site located lo-cated on a mesa at the head of Parachute Crock, Co.. and would parallel the El 1'aso Natural Gas line through Douglas Pass and southwest to Cisco. It would continue to parallel the El Paso line southwest through Moab io L'.sbou :.Hoy but would not cut across Arches National Park as the El Paso line does. Af I ikhuin Tho linp UOtltrf tie into the Pure Oil Co. line going to the Aneth oil field, where it connects con-nects with the Four Corners Cor-ners and Tex-NewMex pipelines. Construction of the line is currently scheduled sche-duled in 1977. toward the windup of construction construc-tion of the company's commercial oil shale plant north of Grand Valley, Val-ley, Co. Foy explained that the pipeline itself can be completed in a 9-month period, and will coincide with completion of the plant. Estimated costs on the line are between be-tween $25 million andSJO million. |