Georgia STRIDE

At Atlanta Gas Light, we’re continually improving our natural gas pipeline infrastructure. This system brings safe, reliable, and environmentally friendly natural gas to our customers in Georgia. Enhancing and expanding our infrastructure is essential to meeting growing demand in our state.

In October 2009, the Georgia Public Service Commission approved an important system upgrade to improve our ability to serve our customers with natural gas on peak demand days called Georgia STRIDE -- Strategic Infrastructure Development and Enhancement. Atlanta’s metropolitan area has experienced rapid growth in the past two decades, and much of that growth has taken place in regions farther removed from Atlanta Gas Light’s existing interstate supply points and high-pressure transmission pipeline system.

Investing in Georgia
Atlanta Gas Light’s investment in natural gas infrastructure is helping to sustain the prosperity of local communities. We’re excited that our investment in Georgia is expected to employ 150-200 construction workers each year -– everything from right-of-way contractors and heavy-equipment operators to pipefitters and welders.

Best of all, we’re ensuring families and business owners in our community have ready access to America’s most abundant, environmentally friendly fuel… today and tomorrow.

As with all of our construction projects, safety is our top priority. Great care will be taken in all phases of the project from beginning to end in each neighborhood. We will make every effort to minimize inconvenience to property owners along the route.

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In Your Community

Southern and Eastern Cobb County
(Johnson Header Pipeline)

This portion of the Johnson Header Pipeline runs from Maner Road to north of Powers Ferry Road. Most of the work on this seven-mile segment consists of integrity testing of our existing pipeline and will require minimal construction. New pipeline will be installed in the remaining portion of this segment – less than two miles starting near the intersection of I-285 and Cobb Parkway and ending in the Wildwood complex off Powers Ferry Road. Pipeline construction is anticipated to start in 2012. We will notify affected property owners and residents of our work schedule in advance of construction. Additionally, four regulators stations, which help control the flow of gas in the distribution system, are also part of the project; installation at sites on Maner Road, Church Road, and Atlanta Road are either underway or complete. Another station will be built in the Powers Ferry Road area.

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North Fulton and Eastern Cobb counties
(Johnson Header Pipeline)

Work on this portion of the Johnson Header Pipeline – which runs from the Powers Ferry Road area in Cobb County through north Fulton County and ends at our Cherokee LNG (liquefied natural gas) facility in Cherokee County – primarily involves integrity testing of our existing pipeline. This effort will occur in phases over the next couple of years. Several regulator stations, which help control the flow of gas in the distribution system, will be installed along the line in Fulton and Cobb counties. Installation of two of the stations located in the City of Milton – at Green Road and Hickory Flat Road – got underway during Summer 2011 and should be complete by the end of the year. Other stations will be installed at Columns Drive in Cobb County and off Willeo Road in Roswell. We will notify neighboring property owners of our work schedule in advance of construction and testing activities.

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East Spalding, Northwest Butts and East Henry counties
(Central Region Pipeline)

Surveying for our Central Region Pipeline was completed in 2010-2011. This transmission pipeline will start at McDonough Road in eastern Spalding County and then continue for approximately 26 miles through western and northern Butts County and across the eastern tip of Henry County to Highway 81 East. Construction of the pipeline got underway in September/October 2011 and is scheduled to be complete in 2012. Property owners in the area of construction were notified in advance.

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Read the Central Region Pipeline Fact Sheet.

Cherokee and Forsyth counties
(Cherokee to Forsyth Pipeline)

Surveying for our Cherokee to Forsyth Pipeline got underway in February 2011 and was completed later in the year. This new pipeline will follow an existing Atlanta Gas Light easement which runs from our Cherokee LNG (liquefied natural gas) facility near Ball Ground in Cherokee County to a point near Atlanta Highway and Park Place in Forsyth County (south of the Cumming city limits). Construction on the pipeline in Cherokee County will get underway in late 2011. We will notify affected property owners and residents of our work schedule in advance of construction.

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Contact us at 404-584-3137 or cherokeeforsythpipeline@aglresources.com

Completed Projects

Lower Fulton and Northern Clayton counties
(Riverdale to Ben Hill Pipeline)

Construction of our Riverdale to Ben Hill Pipeline was completed in early 2011 and the new pipeline went into service in February 2011.

Northwest Fulton County
(Johnson Header Pipeline)

Construction on this segment of the Johnson Header Pipeline – which runs from our Johnson Header location (near Johnson Road NW and Habershal Drive NW) to Maner Road in Cobb County – got underway in August 2010 and was completed in the April 2011. The pipeline is now in service.