Mountain Valley pipeline gets Virginia water-crossing permits

Equitrans Midstream Corp.’s 303-mile, 2-bcfd Mountain Valley natural gas pipeline has received permission from Virginia’s State Water Control Board to cross roughly 150 stream and wetlands. Similar permission from West Virginia is still pending.

Earlier this month, Virginia’s Air Pollution Control Board denied approval of the pipeline’s Lambert compressor station. The station, part of the line’s Southgate extension, was to be sited in Pittsylvania, Va.

Mountain Valley construction is about 94% complete. It would transport gas from the Marcellus and Utica shales to Mid Atlantic and southeast US consumers.

Equitrans expects Mountain Valley to enter service third-quarter 2022. The company began work on the pipeline in February 2018.