Here you’ll find answers to our most frequently asked questions regarding the Metropolitan Natural Gas Reliability Project. If you don’t see your question answered here, please use the Contact Us page to call or email us.
Here you’ll find answers to our most frequently asked questions regarding the Metropolitan Natural Gas Reliability Project. If you don’t see your question answered here, please use the Contact Us page to call or email us.
A typical construction timeline for this work is approximately two to three weeks per block, and about two months on a particular street. Our crews daytime work schedule runs from Monday to Saturday. Please note that some work will take place overnight in accordance with permit stipulations.
National Grid is making significant investments to modernize its natural gas system in Brooklyn. Over the course of the next few years, the Metropolitan Natural Gas Reliability Project, will improve Brooklyn’s natural gas system by increasing the system’s safety, reliability, and operational flexibility. The project will also improve the gas system’s capacity to support the area’s economic growth.
Yes. National Grid’s top priority is the safety of its customers, the general public and its employees and contractors. The professional construction firms we work with also place safety as their top priority.
No. For this phase of the project, we are installing new gas main to reinforce the backbone of Brooklyn’s gas system.
No, the vast majority of work will take place within established utility corridors.
Please call our local project hotline (718-338-8138) and speak with a member of our outreach team.
While our contractors will make efforts to keep disturbance to a minimum, there will undoubtedly be noise associated with this project. Most of that noise will occur while excavation is underway as contractors trench ahead of pipe stringing and installation.
It will be necessary to impose temporary no parking zones for construction activities. Please note that signage will be posted in the affected areas ahead of construction. Our community outreach team will notify residents in advance of construction on their block. National Grid and its contractors will follow NYC DOT traffic stipulations.
Local Project Hotline: 718-337-8138