DeKalb Commisioner and Residents Still Looking for Answers from AGL on Gas Regulator Station

People who live near a proposed gas regulator station in DeKalb County say they are going to fight it, but it may be a losing battle.

Atlanta Gas Light plans to install a gas regulating facility on an acre of land in a residential neighborhood near DeKalb Peachtree airport. AGL officials met Tuesday with about 70 people who live nearby.An audio version of this story

Lori Muskat, who lives just a few hundred yards from the site, is concerned about safety, saying, “The systems were not vulnerable to cyber-attacks 15, 20, 25 years ago. And that is why these types of stations no longer belong as closely situated to residential areas.”  

AGL declined an interview request from WABE but sent a statement saying, in part, that the “gas regulator station is a safe and standard piece of equipment.”

DeKalb Commissioner Jeff Rader says the real issue is land use. He asked AGL several weeks ago to explain why it chose to place the regulator in a residential neighborhood. Rader did not get any answers at Tuesday’s meeting. “They couldn’t document it at the first point that I’d asked for it, and they have not documented it yet,” said Rader.