COLLIERVILLE, Tenn. — A gas leak occurred at an MLGW substation Tuesday night in Collierville because of the winter weather.
The Collierville Police Department alerted the community about reports of a gas odor in town on Jan. 16, telling residents the odor traced to an MLGW substation off Highway 72 and Mann Drive, where a storage tank was leaking a chemical that gives natural gas a scent.
Collierville Fire confirmed it was not natural gas.
MLGW said the leak was repaired at 10:50 p.m. and had been caused by the cold weather. The company said customers in Collierville may smell gas because the smell of mercaptan might linger, which is the chemical odorant that MLGW adds to natural gas to give it the rotten egg/sulfur smell to make it easily detectable.
