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Colonial Pipeline Crews Lend Hand To Tornado Victims

April 14, 1998

DUNWOODY, Ga--Crews from Colonial Pipeline Co., chain saws and a helping hand at the ready, have been knocking on doors in the dunwoody neighborhood affected by last week's tornadoes. The Colonial crews are clearing trees that fell on the company's pipeline easements.

According the John Godfrey, Colonial's project leader for the company's Southeast District, the company completed an aerial reconnaissance with one of its patrol planes the morning after the tornadoes struck to check for damage.

"We were amased at the number of trees down along our easements in Dunwoody," Godfrey said. "The people who were affected have been our neighbors since 1963. As a good neighbor, we want to give them a hand."

According to Godfrey, the Colonial crews are calling on residents who own property that abuts the company's easements to offer help. "If they live on our right of way, and any part of a tree fell on Colonial easements, our crews will cut up their downed trees all the way to the stump, wherever that might be on or off the easement, free of charge. We'll drag the trees out to where we can work on them, haul the logs away and chip the braches," he said.

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