The 20- and 16-inch natural gas liquid pipelines set to be buried in Chester County continued to raise question marks for neighbors to the southeast. Residents of Thornbury and Edgmont townships in Delaware County just east of West Chester joined in on a public meeting last week for Sunoco Logistics’ Mariner East 2 pipeline.

With construction of the $3 billion pipeline slated to begin before the midpoint of this year, time is running short on negotiations, according to a Daily Local News report by Nick Tricome. The project aims to bring more propane, ethane and butane to Sunoco’s refinery at Marcus Hook on the Delaware River and the Delaware state border.

“Sunoco has been around a long time,” Project Manager Matt Gordon said in the article. “We know what we’re doing. It’s our business, and we do it safely. We don’t take this lightly.”

The project will entail a combination of surface digging and underground drilling, though several of the concerns revolved around property easements and compensation, particularly with some existing pipeline easements ranging from decades to more than a century old.

Read more about pipeline meeting in the Daily Local News here, and check out previous VISTA Today coverage of the Mariner East 2 project here.