Residents ask to bury Grid Growth power lines
By Michael Williamson, Richwood Gazette
Another Union County resident is joining in on the growing number of citizens asking for the planned Grid Growth transmission line to be buried underground.
Ken Denman, who lives on Paver-Barnes Road near Peoria, told the county commissioners recently that the project’s proposed pathway goes right near his property and he’s concerned about what might be eliminated in the process.
“It runs down a creek bottom and that’s their proposed route,” he said. “Well, if they run it down there, they’re going to clear it 200-feet-wide, take that woods down, right down the creek. That’s going to be less than 200 feet from my barn and my property and that…
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