High-Voltage Lines Project to Improve Plymouth Utility Reliability Up for Public Comment - WHBL
High-Voltage Lines Project to Improve Plymouth Utility Reliability Up for Public Comment | 1330 & 101.5 WHBL
A project proposed by American Transmission Company to construct a new high-voltage transmission line in rural Sheboygan County is up for public review and comment with the Public Service Commission. Plans by Plymouth Utilities to build a new substation needed to ensure reliability of its distribution system resulted in the need for the new lines in the Towns of Lyndon and Mitchell. That will require new rights-of-way averaging 80 feet wide. A main route as well as an alternate have been proposed, with nearly all stretches of both within natural areas that don’t impact residential developments, and the towers would have a weathered steel finish that blends better with the environment than others.
Environmental and historic preservation studies have already been done, and alternative plans were considered and rejected. Now, the public has about two weeks – through March 15th – to voice its opinions to the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin.
Follow this link to access the project website.
Towers Like These are Proposed by American Transmission Company for the Plymouth Reliability Project. Images Courtesy of ATC
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