BOARD WANTS TO DRAW THE LINE HIGH VOLTAGE PLAN CRITICIZED.Byline: ALEX DOBUZINSKIS Staff Writer A proposed route for a high-voltage transmission line drew opposition Tuesday from the county Board of Supervisors The examples and perspective in this article or section may represent an unduly geographically limited view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. The Board of Supervisors is the body governing counties in the U.S. , which wants the state to keep the line away from residents. Southern California Edison Southern California Edison (or SCE Corp), the largest subsidiary of Edison International (NYSE: EIX), is the primary electricity supply company for much of Southern California. It provides 11 million people with electricity. wants to build a 500-kilovolt line from Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, to Lancaster, and has proposed going through an existing right of way in the Angeles National Forest The Angeles National Forest (ANF) was established by executive order on December 20, 1892 as the San Gabriel Timberland Reserve. It covers over 2,600 km² (650,000 acres) and is located in the San Gabriel Mountains of Los Angeles County, just north of the metropolitan area of Los . But the U.S. Forest Service objects, arguing that a 500-kilovolt route through the forest would harm wildlife and complicate fire suppression. Instead, the Forest Service has proposed a route that would skirt the Angeles, but pass through the rural communities of Agua Dulce Agua Dulce is Spanish for "sweet water". It also refers to various locations: In Mexico:
``These are large, high-power utility towers with wires; they would be very impacting on the community,'' said Paul Novak, Antelope Valley deputy for county Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich Michael Dennis Antonovich (born 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors representing the Fifth District, which covers northern Los Angeles County, the Antelope, Santa Clarita, Pasadena, and parts of the San Fernando and San . The supervisors, in a letter to the California Public Utilities Commission The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC; also often commonly referred to as simply the PUC) [1] is a state Public Utilities Commission which regulates privately-owned utilities in the state of California, including electric power, , have asked that the transmission lines be put underground for four miles in the Angeles and for about 3.5 miles through the city of Santa Clarita. That alternative would avoid Agua Dulce and Leona Valley, by going through the Angeles. The Public Utilities Commission is scheduled to decide on a route in December. A representative from the U.S. Forest Service could not be reached for comment. Edison wants to replace 66-kilovolt lines the utility has running through the Angeles with 500-kilovolt lines, to bring wind-generated power from the Tehachapi Mountains into Southern California. The project, originally budgeted at $90 million, is part of the utility's goal of increasing its use of renewable energies. Edison opposes the idea of running the power lines underground. That would increase the cost of the project, force street closures in Santa Clarita as crews dig into the ground and complicate efforts to fix future power outages involving the line, according to the utility. The utility still wants to run the line through the existing right of way in the Angeles, along a 25.6-mile route from the Pardee Substation in Santa Clarita to the Antelope Valley Substation in Lancaster. ``We try to avoid any communities or putting a line in a place where there is no line today, in effect creating a new corridor,'' said Chuck Adamson, project manager for Edison. If the line passes through Agua Dulce or Leona Valley, a couple of homes could be lost to eminent domain eminent domain, the right of a government to force the owner of private property sell it if it is needed for a public use. The right is based on the doctrine that a sovereign state has dominion over all lands and buildings within its borders, which has its origins in , according to a report to the Public Utilities Commission. alex.dobuzinskis(at)dailynews.com (661) 257-5253 |
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