GR EG RUT H A N A L L-VO LU N T E E R N O N - P RO F I T MO N T H LY N E W S PA P E R SI N C E 1 9 7 6 VO L M M X X I I I N O 6 JUNE 2023 F R E E TO R ESI D E N T S $158M Fix for Power Line Eversource Upgrade Approved last year by ISO-New England, the...
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GR EG RUT H A N A L L-VO LU N T E E R N O N - P RO F I T MO N T H LY N E W S PA P E R SI N C E 1 9 7 6 VO L M M X X I I I N O 6 JUNE 2023 F R E E TO R ESI D E N T S $158M Fix for Power Line Eversource Upgrade Approved last year by ISO-New England, the region’s electric grid operator, the project Continues Until 2024 runs from the Berkshire Substation in by peyton fleming Hinsdale to the Cumberland Substation in Greenfield. A total of 220 structures are being Jeff Bozek wakes up every day to the sound of replaced, many of them nearly a century old, truck traffic and jackhammers, the price of including 70 in Ashfield. living next door to a 26-mile transmission The new transmission towers — rust-col- line owned by Eversource that is undergoing a ored steel monopole structures — will be 15.5 $158 million upgrade in Ashfield and a feet taller on average than the skeletal towers half-dozen other western Massachusetts they are replacing. They are also being communities. outfitted with thicker
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