[pct-l] Sunrise Power Project

[Donna Saufley]

I received in this week's mail a newsletter from the Barren Ridge Renewable
Transmission Project www.ladwp.com/barrenridge , detailing the plans for new
transmission lines through what appears to be on the (very poor) map as just
north of Green Valley.  This will be another one that will undoubtedly
impact the PCT.  They're putting up the towers and lines for this one now;
they have a massive yard for all of the heavy equipment on Bouquet Canyon
west of Vasquez Canyon Road.

L-Rod

-----Original Message-----
From: pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net [mailto:pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net]
On Behalf Of Carl Siechert
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 11:13 AM
To: pct-l at mailman.backcountry.net
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Sunrise Power Project

Yep, it has to cross the PCT (unless they tunnel under it!), but the good
news is this:


In the face of criticism from the Sierra Club and the California Parks
Foundation, SDG&E recently dropped the Anza-Borrego route and embraced a
more costly path farther south.

You can see a large-scale map of the route
here<http://sdge.com/sunrisepowerlink/maps.html>.
I also found this description of the
route<http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/articles/2008/10/22/news/01sunrise10220
8.txt>
:

The 123-mile southern route...would parallel the existing Southwest Power
Link, the region's other major high-voltage transmission line, for 36 miles
in Imperial County and far eastern San Diego County, turn north near the
In-Ko-Pah mountain range, avoid the Campo Indian Reservation, turn south and
loop around the Hauser Wilderness, sweeping north again to follow Interstate
8.


Of course, there are quite a few other major power lines that cross the PCT.
I don't know how this proposed one compares in scale with, say, the one just
south of Stevens Pass.


On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Donna Saufley <dsaufley at sprynet.com> wrote:


> The article doesn't say whether the alternative route that was approved
> also crosses the PCT; the trail is not mentioned at all.   It does sound
> as
> though it will cross the trail as the route roughly parallels the
US/Mexico
> border.
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>
www.latimes.com/business/printedition/la-fi-sunrise19-2008dec19,0,7158534.st
> ory
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