National Grid Installs Gas Main on East Broadway

National Grid is busy digging trenches through East End roads in order to extend a gas main to an apartment building that borders Lido Beach.

The new 1,400 foot main will stretch north from Shore Road at Pacific Boulevard and then east along East Broadway to Executive Towars, a 280-unit apartment complex at 854 E. Broadway.

“It’s a project we’re working on with [Executive] Towers to get gas to them,” said Wendy Ladd, a spokesperson for National Grid. “We’re doing a main extension and then we’re putting in two services to that facility."

The gas and electricity company is working on the project with the City of Long Beach, both the Department of Public Works and the Long Beach Police Department, after submitting an application to perform the work on the city's streets.

“The city reviewed the application and provided the permit after National Grid provided the required information,” Kevin Mulligan, commissioner of Public Works, said about the project.

Notifications were sent to residents to remove their cars on the streets where National Grid will dig trenches, on the northbound side of Pacific and the eastbound side of East Broadway, Ladd said.

As a condition of the permit, the city restricted National Grid to saw-cut the roadway, excavate, install pipe and repair the road in 300-foot segments per day.

“This restriction was put in place so that the interruption to parking was minimized,” Mulligan said. “If National Grid's contractor saw-cut the entire length of the project, parking would be eliminated from Shore and Pacific to Maple and Broadway.”

The work to install the main started Nov. 10. Asked on Monday when National Grid expects to complete the project, Ladd said: “It should take about a week and a half to two weeks.”