Gas outages slowly ending in metro Atlanta after pipeline fix

ATLANTA — Fuel should begin flowing again Wednesday night after days of a gas outage caused by a broken pipeline in Alabama.

Colonial Pipeline told Channel 2's Tom Regan it could take several days for the fuel delivery supply chain to catch up.

“I think Monday was the worst day because Atlanta had not received a substantial amount of gas at all,” said Andy Milton with Mansfield Oil. %

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He says the entire floor at Mansfield are working long hours to ensure drivers don’t feel too much of the impact from the gas leak that happened on a section of one of the major pipelines on Sept. 9. The pipelines supplies gas to much of the east coast.

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“I think next week you'll see a very tangible difference,” Milton said. “My assumption is by week two you'll start to see that cost reduction back in line with where we were about two weeks ago.”

Six hundred people worked around the clock to repair and reroute the 500 foot section that serves more than 50 million people from Houston, Texas, to New York City.

"This really affected the entire industry and I don't think any one company was unaffected in any way at all," Milton told Channel 2's Wendy Corona.

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Local drivers are already starting to see some relief as the average price per gallon in metro Atlanta, $2.50 for regular, is trending down.

“When it first started, I had to go by about five stations. Now I can pass one or two and find some gas, so it's improved a lot,” Bernard Stokes said.

QT said about 65 percent of their 130 stores in metro Atlanta have gas. They expect that to be to 80 percent by late tomorrow.

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