Seattle City Light upgrading power lines in Capitol Hill

Seattle City Light will be upgrading power lines in Capitol Hill during the next year to increase their power capacity. The work is designed to meet local power needs, improve reliability, and provide electricity to the Sound Transit light rail station now under construction.

The work involves the
replacement of 36 existing utility poles with new poles that are one-inch
thicker. A few will be five feet taller. New wires will be up to one inch
thicker than what is currently in service. Seattle City Light also will hang
conduit for communications cables nine feet below the topmost electrical wire.

The new poles and wire
will be placed between City Light’s East Pine substation and the light rail
station Sound Transit is building at 10th Avenue E and E Denny Way.

The route of the project
will start at the East Pine substation at 22nd Avenue and Pine Street then go
west on Pine Street to 21st Avenue, north to Olive Street, west to 20th Avenue,
north to Thomas Street, west to 15th Avenue, north to continue west on Thomas
to 14th Avenue, north to Harrison Street, west to 12th Avenue, south to Denny
Way and west to the Sound Transit Capitol Hill light rail station at 10th
Avenue.