SURVEY RESULTS:

WOW MIDWAY!!!

70.1% of Midway Residents Want to Bury the Line

24.9% Keep it overground.

4% Not sure / need more info.

1% No opinion.

WE HOPE THE CITY COUNCIL WILL USE THE WILL OF THE CITIZENS TO GUIDE THEIR NEXT STEPS TO:

BURY THE LINE!

SURVEY TEXT

First, a bit of background information.  Two power companies, Heber Light and Power and Rocky Mountain Power, are rebuilding a 1 mile stretch of a high power transmission line on the southern edge of Midway as part of a bigger project.  The line will enter Midway at 970 South and Highway 113 going west to Stringtown Road and then north to Wards Lane and west to the city limit. 

The new line will carry 6 times the voltage as the existing line.  Burying the line will increase utility bills for all Midway residents. 

There are 2 options:

1. Keeping the line above ground, which will require replacing the existing 29 wood poles with 10 wood poles and 6 3 – 7  feet-in-diameter steel poles.  All poles, wood and steel, will be 20 – 40 feet higher than the existing wood poles.

2. Bury the transmission line, which will require 2 7 feet-in-diameter, 100-foot-high steel poles at each end of the buried 1-mile section.  The cost for this option will be approximately $10 a month over 20 years for each power feeder in Midway. 

As a resident of a Midway City, are you in favor of keeping this transmission line above ground, or burying the line and accepting an increase in your utility bill?

Just in case my supervisor would like to validate my work, may I have your first name? 

VOLT DISPUTES ITEMS in the SURVEY:

REBUILDING An existing LINE?

Although there is a smaller local transmission line that will be rebuilt as part of this project, the scope and character of the new line will be very different. Where one local power company’s line exists now, the new line will also be built for a privately owned company that has no history of occupying the route. This will require wider and taller poles and carry exponentially more VOLTAGE as it will be increased from 46KV to 2x 138kv circuits. Two companies will occupy and service the line forever moving forward.

COSTS.

The cost is not based on any real number or fact. We believe the monthly cost will be significantly lower. See our FAQ Section for some scenarios.

POLES

Currently there are 19 Transmission Poles. Not 29. There are distribution poles. These will be eliminate too, largely because of VOLT’s efforts to get HLP and elected leaders to RETHINK, REROUTE, OR BURY THE LINE.