Durham Families Await Day In Court Over Power Lines

Lets see when you bought your house you knew that there were power lines close by. Didn't you think they were never to be upgraded. DAH !!!!!!!!!!

If I remember correctly the prices of homes were way over value in the first place. When the Drug company moved to research parkway the values shot through the roof and they paid it.They sent letters out to people to sell their homes and the builders took advantage of it. Those values were inflated anyway. Not good when we the enduser keep paying for never ending lawsuits against our utilities. Those lines been there since I can remember.Even before most of those homes were built.

screw it! I'm tired of high gas, and energy costs too. Just take there stinking houses! It worked for New London!! Quick fixes, political ploys, and easy answers is what we need. Move over China, were putting the red, in red white and blue!

It is funny that these towers are being complained about now after the people asked for them. I also own the right of way for these lines and am happy with the way the project has been handled so far. Every time I asked for anything that did as much as they could. Tired of the complaining. The line were there before most of these homes.

When you buy a house I believe that the conditions and rights of way that utilities have are listed on the title. This is explained at the time of closing by ones own lawyer.

So, did they not listen or just ignore the fact that the utility could do this? I'm tired of people throwing caution to the wind and if it hits them in the arse, sue, sue, sue!!

The big question is did these homeowners even know the difference between what was there and what went in?

ontheline wrote:

The big question is did these homeowners even know the difference between what was there and what went in?

As the saying goes, "look up, look down, see my thumb, your dumb!"

"We were told when we moved here that it would never be anything more [than the existing 50-foot poles]," Robert Francis, a plaintiff in the suit, said Thursday.
Gee, somehow I cannot believe that these buyers would question the height of future utility poles. The property was less expensive for a reason.
Location, location, location.

The lines behind my house in Milford just got completed. I wish these families well. I dread the day that I try to sell my home with these new towers behind my house. The least these power companies could do is give the houses that view these new lines get a discount on power. The power companies can afford it.

"Residents said the taller poles were chosen to distance the lines from potentially dangerous electromagnetic fields that are produced by electrically charged objects. The original 50-foot poles held transmission lines that carried 150 kilovolts of power, Francis said. The new cables transmit 345 kilovolts of power."

A kilovolt is not a unit of power; that would be a Watt. Power (in Watts) is volts x current (in Amps). By increasing the voltage, you proportionally decrease the current for the same amount of power. This is significant because the electromagnetic field is governed by current. So by doubling the voltage, you've halved the current (for a given power). This field decreases with the square of the distance. So by increasing the height by 3.7 times, you decrease the magnetic field by 13.7 times the original strength. So the strength of the field is much less than original. I still wouldn't want to live near it because it's ugly; but it would be safer than having a current bus right underneath my garden.

Isn't anyone disgusted by the fact that they buried the cable when it ran through Fairfield County (the actual beneficiaries of the power line are residents of SW Fairfield County) but once it crossed into commoners territory it was simply strung up on monstrous towers? How much money does it cost to buy the Governor and the Attorney General?

And, if you buy "potential transmission problems related to cable harmonics" you might want to put the crack pipe down. This State is repulsive.

"'We were told when we moved here that it would never be anything more [than the existing 50-foot poles]', Robert Francis, a plaintiff in the suit, said Thursday."

If this is true, and documented, then the plaintiffs are in good shape. If a real estate "professional" told them so, then they are screwed.

Buying a house with a power line in the back yard was a major dolt-nominating act in the first place. There should be no homes around these dangerous but necessary lines. I'm always stunned when I see people and their kids living adjacent to power lines. Now that's a crew that probably isn't capable of what the rest of us call "deep thinking".

It's to the point where comedians have incorporated the line, "what'd you do, live under power lines as a kid?" into their routines.

Jack wrote:

Isn't anyone disgusted by the fact that they buried the cable when it ran through Fairfield County (the actual beneficiaries of the power line are residents of SW Fairfield County) but once it crossed into commoners territory it was simply strung up on monstrous towers? How much money does it cost to buy the Governor and the Attorney General?
And, if you buy "potential transmission problems related to cable harmonics" you might want to put the crack pipe down. This State is repulsive.

Wow, if that's the truth - that there is no truth to the "cable harmonics" thing, then we've all been fleeced.

Again.