News Subscribe  to Our Newsletter Sign  up for Email Updates CGF  In the News Press  Inquiries Past  Articles Calendar			Power lines undergrounded  throughout majority of new route Edgewood, watershed  and San Bruno Mtn. spared by Kathy Switky Over the past year or so, the California Public Utilities  Commission (PUC) has been studying various routes for the proposed new  PG&E Jefferson-Martin Transmission Line to meet increased demand and  avoid outages on the Peninsula. San Bruno Mountain Well into the process, the Committee and others were  successful in getting the project revised so that the southern 10 miles  of the project brought the new 230-kilovolt power lines underground, protecting  sensitive habitat and viewsheds in Edgewood  County Park and Natural Preserve and the Peninsula Watershed.  Along the northern segment of the route, however,  plans for larger transmission towers threatened San  Bruno Mountain State Park.  This August, we met with success. The PUC's final  decision adopted the position  advocated by Committee for Green Foothills and others. Throughout  the new route, lines will be undergrounded under existing roads, except  for a three-mile section north of Trousdale Drive in Burlingame and west  of 280, where the lines will follow the existing route. Sxast.  In areas where the new lines are near residences, the PUC directed that they be buried 11' underground (rather than the standard 7') to reduce exposure to electromagnetic fields.  OCGF activists, along with the National  Park Service, Fish and Wildlife  Service, Friends  of Edgewood Park , People for a Golden Gate National Recreation Area,  and a number of other environmental organizations all helped the PUC and  PG&E make an environmentally-sound decision.  Thanks to all who spoke up! Published November 2004 in Green  Footnotes. Page last updated November 4, 2004 .

	Photo courtesy of San Bruno Mountain Watch, www.mountainwatch.org.