Sunoco Proposes ME2 Pipe Reroute at Marsh Creek Lake Location

Last October Energy Transfer (Sunoco Pipeline) pushed back against a demand by the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) that the company’s Mariner East 2X pipeline project be rerouted one mile around Marsh Creek State Park (in Chester County, PA) following a drilling mud spill in August (see Sunoco Appeals DEP Order to Reroute ME2 Pipe from Marsh Creek Park). Sunoco asked the PA Environmental Hearing Board, a special court created to hear appeals of DEP decisions, to override the DEP’s demand to reroute ME2X. ET/Sunoco has just proposed its own tweak to the Marsh Creek plan, a slight reroute of 1,400 feet instead of the DEP's one mile, and a change to using open trench construction, away from using underground horizontal directional drilling.

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