All tagged PECO
As residents of Hillborn Avenue (a street which straddles Springfield Township and Swarthmore Borough), we learned only this morning that PECO is planning to install new equipment on a route that includes our street. We have requested that PECO place this project on hold so that a full assessment of the project’s environmental impact can be completed and communicated to local residents.
PECO has announced—through a letter sent to some Swarthmore neighbors—that plans are in place to run high voltage lines across our town. The proposed lines may stand directly above garages with gas-filled cars or sheds holding gasoline storage for lawn equipment or, in some cases, above homes within the 20-foot clearance span. I think we need to ask PECO to hit pause and consider alternatives.
Like many of our neighbors, we are shocked and deeply concerned about the extreme removal of trees, as well as our health and the financial hazards that will be caused by PECO’s high voltage lines set to go through our yards and residential streets this month.
