General comments and results of field assessment of seven crossing sites of the proposed methane gas pipeline by Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company, L.L.C. (TGP) for the Cumberland Project.

Pictures were taken from the edge of the creek on the roadside amid the riparian buffer. [...] Looking downstream of the across the creek from the proposed crossing. [...] The pipeline should also try to align perpendicular to the stream to minimize the total length of the crossing. [...] Due to the karst geology of the western highland rim, the possibility of the gas company sinking a stream is extremely high, especially when they are planning on blasting their way, using dynamite, through the majority of the route. [...] The clear cutting of vegetation, in addition to the digging and blasting of pipeline construction, will definitely cause sedimentation in our streams and in turn, reduced amounts of DO in the water.