Investigation needed to establish fault: VP調查需要建立故障：副總裁

By Adam Tyrsett Kuo, The China Post
August 9, 2014, 12:01 am TWN

According to the regulations, pipelines should be buried underground and covered, not exposed to air. The pipe prosecutors discovered intersected the culvert.
As part of the ongoing investigations, prosecutors recently discovered a 4-inch pipe with a 28-square-centimeter hole in the culvert beneath the aforementioned intersection, which is where the explosions were worst.

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Vice President Wu Den-yih (吳敦義) said yesterday that determining who is responsible for the Kaohsiung gas explosions depends on determining whether the pipeline or the culvert beneath the intersection of Ersheng Rd. (二聖路) and Kaixuan Rd. (凱旋路) was built first.

Investigators said that if the gas had leaked from any section of the pipeline that was not exposed to air, and if that had led to an explosion, the magnitude of the blast would have been much smaller. On Thursday, the Kaohsiung District Prosecutors Office said it was “certain” that the leak originated from the 4-inch pipe in the culvert.

According to local reports, the culvert was built during Wu's tenure as Kaohsiung mayor in the 1990s, and it is rumored that the pipeline was laid before the culvert was built.

Assuming that the culvert was built before the pipeline was laid, then the Public Works Bureau's hydraulic engineering division, which is now the Hydraulic Engineering Bureau, is not at fault, Wu said.

In that case, the responsibility would fall on the authorities that were responsible for checking the pipelines within the past two decades, Wu added.

It comes down to the district prosecutors' investigation, in order to determine whether the culvert or the pipeline came first, Wu said.

If the responsibility falls on the Kaohsiung City Government of two decades ago, Wu said that he as then-mayor would have to apologize.

調查需要建立故障：副總裁

亞當Tyrsett國，在中國郵政
2014年8月9日，上午12:01 TWN

台北，台灣 - 副總統吳敦義（吳敦義）昨日表示，決定誰負責高雄瓦斯爆炸事故，取決於確定是否管道或二聖路交叉口下方的涵洞。（二聖路）和凱旋路。（凱旋路）首先建成。

由於正在進行的調查的一部分，檢察機關最近發現了一個4英寸的管道有28平方厘米的孔涵洞上述路口的下方，這是那裡的爆炸是最嚴重的。

根據規定，管道應該埋在地下，覆蓋，不暴露於空氣中。發現管道檢察官相交的涵洞。

研究者說，如果氣體已經從沒有被暴露在空氣中，並且如果該已導致爆炸，爆炸的幅度將是非常小的管道的任何部分洩漏。上週四，高雄地檢署表示，這是“肯定”的洩露源自4寸管涵。

據當地媒體報導，該涵洞是在吳的任期在1990高雄市長建，並有傳言說，管道鋪設涵洞建成之前。

假設涵洞建管道鋪設，那麼公共工務局水利工程事業部，也就是現在的水利工程局之前，沒有過錯，吳說。

在這種情況下，責任會落在那名負責在過去二十年中檢查管線的主管部門，吳加。

它歸結到區檢察院的調查，以確定該暗渠或管道是否排在第一位，吳說。