Manitoba Hydro crews worked late into the evening last night repairing a ruptured gas line at the corner of Peters Ave and Royal Cres.
Witnesses on scene report a strong odour of gas.
Manitoba Hydro's Scott Powell explains they received a call on Wednesday afternoon of a crew installing underground infrastructure that scraped a gas line causing a leak. Powell notes the pipe wasn't broken, but created a low velocity venting-to-atmosphere of natural gas.
"No danger of explosions or migration of the gas underground," he says, adding crews stopped the flow around 9:15 p.m and continued to replace the pipe.