{"id":74,"date":"2016-05-27T17:13:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T17:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nafi.org\/blog\/?p=74"},"modified":"2016-05-27T17:13:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T17:13:48","slug":"underground-leaks-in-propane-or-natural-gas-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nafi.org\/blog\/underground-leaks-in-propane-or-natural-gas-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Underground leaks in propane or natural gas lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-75\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.nafi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Fotolia_84490450_XS-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Neglected Gasline Sign\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.nafi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Fotolia_84490450_XS-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.nafi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Fotolia_84490450_XS.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looking for an underground leak in a propane or natural gas line?\u00a0 Go back to nature.\u00a0 In addition to using your nose to detect the smell of the odorant (usually a mercaptan or similar compound), it is not unusual to see flies buzzing around the point where gas is leaking out of the ground.\u00a0 Odorants are similar to the chemicals given off by rotting food, and the flies can\u2019t tell the difference.\u00a0 Other signs are dead grass or vegetation.\u00a0 If the ground is wet, you may also see bubbles.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Sources: R.Meier; and <\/i><i>Explosion Investigation and Analysis<\/i><i> by P.Kennedy)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for an underground leak in a propane or natural gas line?\u00a0 Go back to nature.\u00a0 In addition to using your nose to detect the smell of the odorant (usually a mercaptan or similar compound), it is not unusual to see flies buzzing around the point where gas is leaking out of the ground.\u00a0 Odorants &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nafi.org\/blog\/underground-leaks-in-propane-or-natural-gas-lines\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Underground leaks in propane or natural gas lines<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nafi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nafi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nafi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nafi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nafi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nafi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nafi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nafi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nafi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}