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the georgetown herald wednesday evening june 27 1050 page 4 behind your burner unitedj gas is one of those things people take for granted they lust turn on the burner and there it is yet behind that familiar quiet blue flame scientists engineers technicians and machines arc at work doing the kinds of jobs that are so important main- taining a constant dependable supply of natural gas if you would trace back the gas lines from your water hea ter range or gas furnace youm find that they all go back to your gas meter from your gas meter the line goes underground as do lines from other houses in your neighbourhood they connect to a gas main laid under the streets of the entire community these gas mains are fed their gas supply from a regulating station where engines and automatic machines control the gas flow ac cording to the changing demand your community regulating sta tion is connected to a transmission pipeline which may go under ground over or under water depending on the geographical con tour of the country these transmission lines are as much as 2000 miles in length with many pumping stations manned by engin eers and technicians the purpose of the pumping station is to increase the pressure of the gas to boost it along to the next oper ation it might be another pumping station or it could be one of the underground storage areas where natural gas is stored in vast caverns or sand beds from which all gas had been previously ex hausted at the other end of the transmission pipeline is the nat ural gas well holes are drilled in the ground thousands of feet deep to tap the stores of natural gas in the earth next time you turn on the gas remember between you and the gas well there are miles of pipeline many machines skil led engineers technicians and workers backed by physicists che mists and geologists as well as your local distribution system but all you see is the dependable clean silent blue flame next week natural gas for better hying united suburban gas co ltd georgetown 20 main st north tr 73921 4