“One of the things that we've been working on in recent years is making sure that the whole Park City Wasatch Back area has two major transmission feeds, one that comes up Parleys Canyon and the other in the south that comes up Provo Canyon,” said Eskelsen. Once completed, Eskelsen said, the improvements will not only reduce fire risk, it will also increase overall reliability and improve service for Rocky Mountain Power customers. Rocky Mountain Power anticipates the entire project will be online by the end of June. “And also that distribution line will be taken off the existing structures and placed underground.”Įskelsen said crews should finish replacing most of the above-ground structures by May 15, and the trenching work should finish around June 1. “We are replacing, you know, certain control structures with modernized equipment that is less prone to produce any sparking that could create a fire,” said Eskelsen. Rocky Mountain Power spokesperson David Eskelsen said in addition to the new weather- and fire-resistant steel power poles, distribution lines, those that carry power to neighborhoods, are being buried. It’s part of a six-state, half-a-billion-dollar, improvement project designed to prevent and mitigate wildfires, particularly those caused by electrical disturbances. The utility company is updating its transmission and distribution lines from the Snyderville substation, near the Utah Olympic Park, to the substation in downtown Park City. After seven months of winter conditions, Rocky Mountain Power has resumed work on its multi-million dollar wildfire mitigation project along state Route 224 in Park City.
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