2.16.10 Feds revive Lehigh Valley high-power line option

As reported by the Morning Call:

A plan to string a very high-power line across the Lehigh Valley appears back in play even though PPL abandoned it two years ago.

PPL prefers a route running north of the Valley and through the Delaware Water Gap. But the National Park Service has announced it will conduct environmental studies on that and two other routes, including the one through the Valley.

And the Allentown company would need a park service permit to upgrade existing lines that run through the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, which the federal agency oversees.

Park service studies of all three routes from PPL’s Susquehanna nuclear power plant in Luzerne County to Roseland, N.J., near Newark, could take three years, PPL spokesman Paul Wirth said Friday.

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