Puget Sound Energy will begin work next week to replace the 45-year-old lattice utility towers (upper center). Work on the Bainbridge side, pictured, will start the week of Aug. 11.
Starting as early as next week, Puget Sound Energy will begin work to replace the lattice utility towers on each side of the Agate Pass – the only two lines serving Bainbridge Island.
Construction will begin first as early as next week on the Squamish side and will start on the Bainbridge side the week of Aug. 11, Puget Sound Energy Project Manager Barry Lombard said.
Lombard said the two new brown weathered steel monopoles arrived Tuesday and the anchor bolts would arrive Wednesday.
The project is scheduled to be completed by the end of October, if not sooner, Lombard said.
The estimated cost to remove the existing 45-year-old towers and replace them is $3.5 million to $4.5 million. The cost is approximately $500,000 less than previously estimated, Lombard said.
The new monopoles will stand 140-feet tall out of the ground – 10 feet taller than the current lattice towers. The monopoles will remain the current 115 kilovolts with each tower carrying three wires each.
