Gas Service Restored in Potomac Neighborhood

WJLA reported that heavy customer demand caused a mechanical failure leaving 660 Washington Gas customers without service.

Hundreds of Potomac residents have natural gas service again following a mechanical problem that disrupted their service.

The problem occurred Tuesday near River Road when problems linked to heavy service demand temporarily left about 660 customers without service.

Washington Gas crews were able to restore pressure to the line by 3:10 a.m., but each of the homes affected by the outage had to be visited by technicians so pilot lights could be reignited.

By seven a.m., about 400 residents had been contacted by technicians.

When it's cold and you need natural gas the most, the system fails due to heavy use... It's crazy to think heavy service demand was the reason behind the service disruption. Potomac residents are too wealthy and influential to let another PG County debacle occur in their neighborhood. We'll see if other parts of the system stat to fail in Maryland.