CX-019698: Coolidge-Valley Farms Transmission Line Rebuild Project

Western Area Power Administration would rebuild 6.1 miles of the existing Coolidge to Valley Farms 115-kilovolt Transmission Line within the previously disturbed, 100-foot-wide right-of-way to mitigate violations, add capacity, and improve reliability and safety, while reducing maintenance costs. Western Area Power Administration would replace wood pole structures that were determined structurally deficient with new wood ones in the same locations. Western Area Power Administration would remove the existing conductor and replace it with one with a higher capacity and less sag. Western Area Power Administration would replace the insulators and other hardware at each pole structure. Western Area Power Administration would remove the existing overhead protection ground wire and replace it with a fiber optic ground wire used for utility communication purposes. In order to connect the fiber to equipment, Western Area Power Administration would install new underground conduit from the takeoff structures to the control buildings within the Coolidge and Valley Farms substations. Western Area Power Administration would use existing access roads to reach the right-of-way. Western Area Power Administration would create new roads or improve existing ones located within the right-of-way to safely drive work vehicles to each structure.