The Tennessee Valley Authority is planning a $26 million upgrade of its transmission lines through portions of Bradley, Hamilton and Meigs counties to upgrade its power delivery and to service a new secured facility the federal utility is planning to build next year in Georgetown, Tennessee.
TVA plans to build about 5.25 miles of double-circuit transmission line to provide power to TVA's proposed Gunstocker Creek 161 kilovolt station. As proposed, the line would be built on about five miles of existing steel pole structures on existing 100-foot-wide right of way and on new 100- to 150-foot-wide right of way.
TVA announced Monday it will conduct an informational meeting from 3-7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 30 at the Cedar Ridge Seventh-Day Adventist Fellowship Hall, 8408 Highway 60 in Georgetown, to answer questions about the proposed transmission project.
The project is expected to be in service in winter 2020-2021. Construction is scheduled to begin in winter 2019-2020.
The proposed power line would begin at TVA's Sequoyah Nuclear Plant-Hiwassee No. 1 161-kV Transmission Line at a point just northwest of the Hopewell, Tennessee 161-kV Metering Station near the intersection of Rabbit Valley Road Northwest and State Highway 60 (Georgetown Pike) northwest of Cleveland, Tennessee. One tap point is under consideration.
The new line would extend northwest for about 5.25 miles to the proposed Gunstocker Creek 161-kV Station northeast of the intersection of State Highways 58 and 60 in Meigs County.
About 4.25 miles of the new line would be on existing 100-foot-wide right of way of TVA's East Cleveland Primary-Georgetown 69-kV Transmission Line. This line would be torn down and rebuilt as double-circuit from Structure 76 to the old Georgetown Substation. The remaining one mile would be on new 100- to 150-foot-wide right of way.
More information is available at www.tva.com/transmissionprojects.