Whittier gas restored after Enstar secures temporary LNG supply

The Begich Towers resident apartment building in Whittier. (Valerie Lake/Alaska Public Media)
Whittier residents now have access to natural gas after a pipeline failure forced the local utility to temporarily shut off service.
A boater on the Twentymile River smelled gas Aug. 9 near an underwater section of pipeline, according to Enstar Natural Gas Company. Enstar said about a week later that the pipeline had deteriorated to the point that the gas flow to Whittier, a community of about 250 peop