Power Line Project Makes Progress, Despite Sandy
After about a month of construction delays, the Susquehanna-Roseland Power Line is still moving forward.
It's been about three months since PSE&G started preperation work on upgrading the Susquehanna-Roseland power line, and since then officials have been making progress, after getting delayed about a month from Hurricane Sandy. This power line, which has been a controversial project, is a 500,000-volt transmission line that will go through Pennsylvania and parts of New Jersey, including Jefferson. "Right now it's still site preparation, grading, excavation, and road work," PSE&G Project Director John Margaritis said. He said this week crews worked on Croft Road, Weldon Road and Sachem Road. Crews disassembled towers and removed wire in the right-of-way off Croft Road and Sachem Road, he said. The tower assembly was also done in the right-of-…
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Bruce
10:32 am on Saturday, December 8, 2012
Sadly, any successful injunction will not stop this project from violating townships along its path... that ship has already sailed! At best, it may slow things down and force a re-route around NPS property since NPS apparently is not capable in living up to their mandate of protecting public parks, but that alone would be a significant "win." more ›