Laserfiche WebLink
,n <br />u <br />-- <br />s <br />DEC 07 1981 <br />~J <br />T. J. W/iliVVVR1uHT <br />Department of Energy <br />Western Area Power Administration <br />Montrose District Office <br />1800 South Rio Grande Avenue <br />Montrose, Colorado 81401 <br />Mr. Thomas J. Wainwright <br />Colorado Project Manager <br />Peabody Coal Company <br />Campus 6 Office, Suite 600 <br />12015 East 46th Avenue <br />Denver, Colorado 80239 <br /> <br />• <br />I 1 <br />U <br />Dear Mr. Wainwright: <br />In reply <br />Refer to: <br />M0000 <br />DEC 4 'q81 <br />This is in reply to your letter of November 5, 1981 concerning the <br />expansion of the Mesa Gravel Pit operation located in Routt County <br />just south of our Hayden Substation. We appreciate being advised <br />of your proposed operation in advance. <br />Our right-of-way all along the transmission line is 80 feet on the <br />wood pole transmission lines and 125 feet on the steel tower lines. <br />The lines emanate from a major load center, our Hayden Substation, and <br />any electrical or physical jeopardy to these structures could result <br />in disruption of power service effecting a large area. However, we are <br />interested in working with you to safely remove the gravel deposits <br />without jeopardy to your equipment, operators, or to our transmission <br />line facilities. <br />The lines are continuously energized at 138,000 volts on the wood poles <br />and 230,000 volts on the steel tower structures. You have mentioned <br />the use of scrapers and wheel loaders. The use of cranes would be out <br />of the question in this transmission line infested area. In no event <br />should any equipment, including your wheel loaders, be operated within <br />13 feet of the conductors on the wood pole lines and 16 feet of the <br />steel tower lines. The chance of being able to take a line out of <br />service when you are in the proximity of the energized conductors is <br />rather slim; but we can, under some conditions, issue hot-line orders <br />and if you should accidently come in contact with an energized conductor, <br />it would relay open the circuit and the line would not be energized for <br />a specified time limit or on a call basis. <br />We would also appreciate <br />time--either proceed from <br />the excavation within the <br />overburden. <br />it if you would work under only one line at a <br />north to south or vice versa. That is, complete <br />limits around the structures and return the <br />