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For those who think this upgrade is a bad idea, let them get 10% - 15% of the 4700 customers to sign a petition saying they will remove their air conditioners. So we can continue to use the existing substation. That's about 500 customers, who's first in line?
Also, Sarah Brenna who lives in a nearby condominium complex and commented that the expansion would "stick out like a sore thumb," she lives in the CONDO COMPLEX, the ultimate urban eyesore! Nothing screams historic neighborhood like a condo complex!
Honestly...people expect to have their cake AND eat it too, it's absolutely ridiculous.
So it sounds like my neighbors want higher EMF levels if they get what they want.
This is common stuff learned in a physics class at the U.
Now the same kind of development is planned farther north in an older neighborhood within a stone's throw of the U. Yes, indeed, it's someone else's back yard but, as they say, there goes the neighborhood. Why trash a thriving neighborhood with medical offices, cafe, day care facility, and hospital on the fringes of this substation? Plus a number of Victorian homes. There must be a better way! Let's move the substation to an already vacated industrial area in Fort Douglas, surround it with a brick wall and then plant some trees.
I don't see any comment about undergrounding the lines like you're referring to only a comment about an underground substation in Anaheim, and as we all know it's the lines that are the EMF issue not the substation. I might also note that yes the lines are closer to you in the ground; the EMF field dissipates at a faster rate and is usually much weaker by the time it reaches your house (where you spend more time as opposed to standing on top of a buried line).
This is also common stuff learned at physics at the U.
It seems that most of the responses that are anti-neighbor, seem to all try to imply that they want the substation removed... I don't see anyone saying that not even in the article itself. Odd how all of you keep coming to that conclusion.
-John
It does not voice that Rocky Mountain Power found toxins in the soil, that their staff has limited capabilities in building sustainable sub-stations that the rest of the world is using, and that the RMP representatives will not fully disclose the detailed plans that this expansion involves (They skirted around the details. This is an example of a spin job).
We all need to take greater responsibility in conservation - including our sole utility company.
The talk about undergrounding came out in the city meeting, along with hurting children etc due to EMF from 138 kv lines. As 'Just a thinker' says check your fridge, stove & razor for high emf fields. My sister in law lives near Anaheim and pays more than 22 cents a kwh. Thats why they can afford underground substations. They would love to get back to 8 or even 10 cents. Anyone else want to triple their bills? By the way the price of power here is the same as it was in 1985. Check you own bills.
-John