The WRCO Morning Show discusses the proposed 765 Kilovolt Line Project

The first part of the Morning Show on March 26 featured information on the 765 Kilovolt Line Project. Vernon County landowner, Rob Danielson spoke with Phil about the project. Here is the audio.

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The proposed project has raised considerable concern among many landowners, elected officials and state agencies in Vernon, Crawford and Richland counties.

The No 765 Line says that “Dairyland and Gridliance-Heartland are solely proposing, Maribell, the first 20-mile segment of a roughly 200-mile 765 kilovolt system that would stretch across the Driftless from Genoa to Portage before heading south to the Wisconsin/Illinois border. Use of the existing transmission corridor that co-developers see as their primary focus, at this time, would involve very substantial expansions of the 161 kilovolt transmission corridor heading south-southeast out of Genoa, turning due east near Seneca before reaching the Bell Center substation, 1.3 miles south of Gays Mills. Over that stretch, transmission corridor widths would have to be expanded from roughly 100 feet to 250 feet; and tower heights increased from 70 feet to as much as 200 feet.

The Kickapoo Valley Reserve Board stated that the 765 kilovolt transmission lines would “create audible noise and visible corona discharge effects that are significantly magnified under a high humidity conditions.” Both Crawford County and the KVR Board noted that the facility “would add hazardous obstacles for numerous migrating and resident raptors, waterfowl, grassland and song birds that frequent the Driftless area.”