b'FUELINGLAS 71New Pipeline Helps Assure Fuel Supplyat Harry Reid Intl and Other Vegas AirportsBY SEAN OKEEFEA 3.5-mile pipeline snaking beneath the streets of Las Vegas is the final component of a multi-phase fuel system project at Harry Reid International Airport (LAS), formerly known as McCarran International. The roughly $70 million initiative, funded entirely by the local fuel consortium, dates back to the early 2000s, when Clark County Department of Aviation began looking for ways to expand storage and throughput of the system that feeds aviation fuel to LAS and four smaller airports that serve Southern Nevada.Decades of hard work and thoughtful coordination came to fruition in March, when the new pipeline began operating in conjunction with upgraded tanks and other infrastructure improvements added in prior phases of the long-term initiative. As a second in command at LAS,JIM CHRISLEYDeputy Director of Aviation Jim Chrisley has been hands-on with the effort his entire six and a half year-tenure with the airport. The new fuel pipeline serving LAS and our general aviation airports is a project that has been in development for close to 20 years, Chrisley says, adding that LAS was the eighth-busiest U.S. airport for passenger traffic in 2021. We are certainly a leader in origin and destination traffic, which gives rise to a lot of unique challenges that resonate throughout the airports operations. Fueling the planes is certainly one of them.AirportImprovement.comMay | June 2022'