Natural Gas Leak at Prince William Parkway Cleared

Update: 1:31 p.m. Washington Gas maintenance teams have left the incident site. Minor construction has resumed.

Prince William County Police shut down all lanes of traffic between Marblestone Drive and Greatbridge and Ridgefield roads on the Prince William Parkway this morning due to a natural gas leak.

An alert was sent out via Twitter by the police at 9:14 a.m. that traffic lanes east of Hoadly Road were closed due to gas incident.

Washington Gas, Occoquan-Woodbridge-Lorton and Dale City Volunteer Fire Departments responded to the scene.

Officer Jonathan Perok of the Prince William County Police Department reported that the gas leak was capped just after 10 a.m. this morning.

Construction on the Prince William Parkway expansion project may be to blame for the gas leak.

Traffic that would have otherwise been traveling on the Prince William Parkway artery was directed to funnel through Asdee Lane and through Greatbridge Road, in the River Falls development. Traffic looped behind the County Complex and spilled out to the Prince William Parkway.

At 10:20 a.m., traffic has returned to normal.

More information will be published on this story as an investigation is released.