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Merriwether residents get first look at upcoming plan process for new electric transmission line web posted January 30, 2009  MERRIWETHER – Plans
for a new power
transmission line from North Augusta to a substation on Murrah Road in
Merriwether drew a large crowd at the Sweetwater Baptist Church gym
Thursday evening. Officials with the Central Electric Power
Cooperative, who supplies power to the 40 electric cooperatives, were
on hand to discuss the process of where the existing lines were and how
the process to determine where and how the path of the new transmission
line would be determined.Officials told residents that no decision on possible paths the single pole high voltage transmission lines have been determined at this time. There would be a number of factors that would be considered that included wetlands, soil type, residential areas, historic markers, archeological sites, pubic input, and others. Another meeting will be held in about ten weeks at which time Central Electric Power will present a map that will show several possible routes to join the North Augusta substation on Mustang Drive with the substation on Murrah Road at Springhaven Drive in Merriwether. A few months later they will return again with the final chosen route and will begin the process of gaining the required 75-foot right-of-way needed from affected property owners in order to install the transmission line. That will be the hardest part as property owners who do not want to have the line cross their property will eventually end up in court for a jury to decide how much they will be paid for the right-of-way, as officials said, implying once they had made their choice of the path the landowners were not going to have a way to stop it. © Copyright 2009
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