[TigersEye]

The breadth and length of a pipeline might take 80% to 90% of some properties. Not everyone owns 1,000+ acres.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Huh? 8” pipes and 2-3ft offsets is what I remember.

[Milton Miteybad]

Maybe, but I doubt it. You'd have to see a set of alignment sheets to say one way or another, and you can only come up with those after a survey.

There isn't much harm that will come from a survey, which may reveal surface hazards that would render placement of a pipeline infeasible. They want to stay away from residential areas as much as possible, and that's the kind of surface hazard the survey is intended to identify.

As noted before, you hardly ever find a landowner who likes the idea of a pipeline crossing their tract, and this would especially be true in an area like West Virginia, where pipes in the ground aren't as common as they are in the Southwest. But once you explain to them that the operator will need to cross, but they can put the line in a place that's least likely to interfere with their enjoyment of the surface, they usually come around, especially if they have a great amount of input as to the placement of the line. They still may not like the idea, but after the construction is complete and the area is re-seeded, they can't tell anything is even there.

[thackney]

The breadth and length of a pipeline might take 80% to 90% of some properties.

They don't route the pipelines through existing subdivisions, they go around the most populated sections. That is partly why the survey is done first. Pretty normal to route through the fields away from the homes.