More than a week after a house in Centreville was decimated by a fire, leading dozens of residents to evacuate, investigators have finally identified the source of a natural gas leak that might’ve caused the explosion.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has removed a section of polyethylene plastic pipe near the corner of Quail Pond Court and Belle Plains Drive that leaked air during pressure testing, sending to a lab in D.C. for examination.
“The NTSB investigative team directed and oversaw Washington Gas conduct additional pressure testing of the surrounding distribution system in the area where gas was indicated and found no evidence of any other leaks,” the federal agency said in an update this afternoon (Tuesday)…