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Article: SDG&E wants Borrego Springs option for power line on table.
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- North County Times (Escondido, CA)
- Article date:
- March 2, 2007
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Byline: Dave Downey
Mar. 2--BORREGO SPRINGS -- San Diego County's electric utility is trying to preserve the option of stringing wires through this desert town, in case its preferred route for a new power line through the heart of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park doesn't work out.
The California Public Utilities Commission had proposed eliminating dozens of alternate routes for San Diego Gas & Electric Co.'s $1.3 billion Sunrise Powerlink project. One of those would avoid much of the park by running north along Highway 86, then east along county route S-22 through Borrego Springs.
But the utility, in comments mailed to the regulatory agency ...