The “Water Cooler” is a feature on Claycord.com where we ask you a question or provide a topic, and you talk about it.
The “Water Cooler” will be up Monday-Friday in the noon hour.
QUESTION: Do you think PG&E should put all their power lines underground?
Talk about it….
There are a lot of things we can think about doing, but how is it going to be paid for. Imagine digging up your street, block by block to bury these lines. How much time would it take to do one block, how much would it cost?
So the obvious answer is yes, we want them buried under ground. But no, I do not want to pay for it.
Undergrounding in my opinion is little more that a placating publicity stunt.
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Project on Kirker Pass is done and poles are still there with telephone and fiber still on them. Poles above those lines were chainsawed off. Transformer installed at Nortenville Rd. appears to be sized for a subdivision.
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What should be carefully reviewed by attorney general are any changes in maintenance levels over past 25 years.
It’s the least that they could do after killing 85 & 4 which included a child.
Claycord should be able to get an interview with Patti Poppe with her living so close.
Who would pay the $10,000+ to change your breaker panel from overhead weatherhead type to underground type?
absolutely.
Sadly the financial burden to the ratepayers would be unbearable for most Californians.
I also do not see how that would be cost effective to do this and think they should just better maintain what’s there. It would be like tearing down and rebuilding your house because it would be better located three feet to the right on the property.
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Yes, if residential rates do not increase more than three percent per year over 10 years.
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No. Would cost a fortune, makes upgrades and expansions more expensive, would have big impact on properties that the lines have easements on, etc. Overhead lines are more prone to weather issues but the issues can be corrected fairly quickly and inexpensively.
Above ground fault conditions can be fixed in hours.
Fault conditions in buried conductors can be repaired in days to weeks.
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Few residences are set up to live without electricity for days to weeks.
They already doubled my bill.
Yes, but I’m not willing to pay that goddamn company one more cent in monthly fees. Also, I’ve been all through New England where they have much worse weather than us and they don’t seem to have this problem.
Yes, definitely. I am all in for making CA voters live with the consequences of their decisions. We should ban natural gas too.
Aren’t they suppose to be doing that already? The feel good (expensive) TV ads show them doing just that. Looks like mostly empty land but, hey, they need to start somewhere. So doing an easy area first makes sense to their investors.
we moved in to our house 51 years ago and the power line was underground. I don’t quite understand Anon’s comment about the breaker panel
Maybe sit this one out.
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Some homes have a service “drop” line and mast on their home. Some homes are underground from the home to the base of the pole.
If undergrounded, Anon doesnt understand the lines would only be undergrounded from pole to pole and not the service drop to the home.
Not only is it safer, it looks better. Overhead lines are a relic of days gone by and scream of rural electrification. It is time to move into the future. Ir doesn’t have to happen overnight. It will take years and be accomplished very gradually, as the costs permit.
All? probably not – most? yes, but then wo pays? If it comes out of shareowners and profits – go for it
As long as they py and all take pay cuts to make restitution for their horrible actions in the past.
No. How will the fox squirrels get around without power lines?