Have You Heard?
500,000 Volt transmission line is planned to potentially cut through Palomar Mountain
Have You Heard?
500,000 Volt transmission line is planned to potentially cut through Palomar Mountain
500,000 Volt transmission line is planned to potentially cut through Palomar Mountain
500,000 Volt transmission line is planned to potentially cut through Palomar Mountain
For now, we can only guess based on notification letters received by residents during the bidding process - see the map below. In orange, are the parcels that got notified.
In spring 2024, the selected project sponsor has been announced, as being Horizon West Transmission (a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Inc.). We may not know about their actual proposed routes until 2025, so for now we have to assume that the "orange" road is still under consideration.
Based on this map, the 500,000 Volt transmission line could travel through Warner’s Valley at Lake Henshaw, up to Panorama Trail off East Grade (blue line). Then it would continue all along that very lush and beautiful East Grade Road, through both the Will and Dyche Valleys. The lines could go up and through the heart of Palomar where we have the General Store and Post Office. At our only businesses, we could drive under those lines then all along the left edge of State Park Road (yellow line). The lines could probably extend through the State Park following the existing power easement, requiring massive clear cutting under the lines. This would go all the way to San Onofre to supply power to Orange County and LA.
NO power would be available for Palomar or cities along the way.
Every single person going home to their cabin or ranch, or our many visitors in our old growth forest with the World Famous Observatory and 2000 acre State Park would travel this route. You would be driving along these possibly 260 foot towers humming with 500,000 Volts of electricity and a butchered swath of our beautiful forest, meadows and ponds, clear-cut under all the lines.
High voltage transmission lines can be a severe fire danger. According to CalFire, "a faulty transmission line" caused the Paradise Fire that burned over 150,000 acres. But this is not the only fire created by high voltage lines. Click here for a more complete list. The same thing could happen here with our 100 mph winds out of the rim where this line might cut through.
Palomar has so many historic Indian sites with hundreds of grinding holes and areas where many pottery shards and arrowheads have been found. One of our residents is working on a post showing the endangered species found on the mountain, and grasses and plants that are only known to this area for basket weaving by the Indians, and endangered species habitats that have been studied for preserving .
There are numerous endanger species that are local and native to Palomar Mountain, one of them being the "Laguna Skipper Butterfly". Among them are other endangered plants, animals, and insects. More to come on this issue, please stay tuned for more updates.
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You can find the May 9th, 2024 report at this link: http://www.caiso.com/InitiativeDocuments/ImperialValley-NorthofSONGSProjectApprovedProjectSponsorReport.pdf
A good source of just-in-time info on this fast-evolving situtation can be found at https://palomarmountainnews.com/
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