Natural Gas Pipeline Safety

Safety Tips

• If you live or work near natural gas pipelines, you should have received a special pipeline safety pamphlet - part of the Ameren Illinois and Ameren Missouri larger communications effort to educate the public and emergency responders on safety around pipelines.
• A key element in pipeline safety is a program that offers anyone who may dig a free service to mark the location of utility-owned underground utilities. Both Illinois and Missouri laws require anyone digging, regardless of the depth of the project, to call the locating service for their area.
• In Illinois, this service is called JULIE (Joint Utility Locating Information for Excavators). To contact JULIE, call 800.892.0123 or make your request online at illinois1call.com. Your notice to dig must be made at least 48 hours (two working days) before excavation starts, and the project must begin within 14 calendar days from the call to JULIE.
• In Missouri, this service is the Missouri One Call System. To contact Missouri One Call, call 800.DIG.RITE (800.344.7483) or make your request online at mo1call.com. Your notice to dig must be made at least three working days, and not more than ten working days, before excavation starts.
• Visit the National Pipeline Mapping System at npms.phmsa.dot.gov for more information about pipelines operating in your area.
• In either state, you may also dial 811 to be connected to the locating service for your area.
• Ameren Illinois and Ameren Missouri also conduct and participate in safety education for emergency responders, contractors, customers, children and others. The companies also conduct regular patrols and inspections of their natural gas pipeline rights-of-way and facilities. Highly trained Ameren natural gas employees are qualified under U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) standards for natural gas pipeline operators.