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"The latest gas leak in Kansas City is raising new concerns about digging underground.People in more than two dozen Brookside-area homes had to evacuate Wednesday night after a worker doing third-party work for Google Fiber hit an AT&amp;T line. A contractor that AT&amp;T hired to fix the damage wound up striking a 5-inch natural gas line.As crews worked to fix the damage, spray paint marking the various lines looked like a graffiti problem.\"Orange is telecommunications, blue is water, yellow is gas lines,\" said Brookside resident Bill Jump.He said despite the inconvenience, the new technology is worth the hassle. He said he won't be surprised if something like this happens again.\"I think you are going to see a lot of things where the old work will run into the new work,\" Jump said.As Kansas City celebrates its 160th birthday, all those decades have left a lot to work around under the city streets.\"You are going to have storm sewer, sanitary sewer (lines). You're going to have water, you are going to have electric. You're going to have cable lines and fiber-optic lines,\" said Sean Demory of the Kansas City Public Works Department.He said in some places, there are upwards of eight underground lines, leaving workers minimal room for error. While companies mark the lines above ground, mistakes can still happen during the course of digging.A gas line break from underground digging has been blamed in the fire and explosion at JJ's restaurant in February. Just days later, a gas leak from a Google Fiber dig forced evacuations in a neighborhood south of the Country Club Plaza.AT&amp;T said work continues to fix its communication line for customers in the area. Residents in the Brookside neighborhood said they think Google Fiber should come within a month, if things go smoother than they did within the last 24 hours."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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