A worker watches as two others smooth out freshly applied asphalt shoveled from the back of a truck at the intersection of East Gobbi and Main streets and Porzio Lane in Ukiah, Calif. on Friday, July 18, 2025. The workers were “raising the irons,” which means raising manhole covers to the surface of a newly paved road. (Lin Due via Bay City News)

UKIAH, CA., 7/17/25 – Workdays were lost — and businesses and residents inconvenienced — when gas lines were hit during the “grinding” process on Main Street, part of the Gobbi/Perkins/Main project to replace decades-old water and sewer pipes. The grinding process uses special machines to remove a layer of pavement to prepare the surface for new paving. 

The city said that the PG&E lines that were hit had not been marked by the utility.  

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