SDG&E Community Council Meeting

An SDG&E sponsored Community Council meeting was held in Alpine last night to address mitigation issues for the Sunrise Powerlink construction in the Alpine area. The standing room only crowd had many tough questions for SDG&E public relations personnel and engineers, including the big question of where they will get 70 million gallons of water necessary for construction of the line. SDG&E was unable to answer the question. The environmental expert on staff at SDG&E explained to the crowd that they were “cutting corners” on the project, a misguided effort at a joke about making the line shorter. In general many people in the crowd knew more about the project than the staff on hand to answer questions.

The next step for many of us is to now write to the CPUC to make sure they are aware of ALL the issues that need to be mitigated on this project. SDG&E stated many times last night that were “still studying the problem” regardless of what the question was about. CPUC will not issue a Notice to Proceed until all mitigations have been addressed. If you feel that SDG&E needs to look at something further, please write to the CPUC directly. You should also send a copy of any correspondence to Supervisor Diane Jacob. Their addresses are listed below:

Billie Blanchard
Sunrise Powerlink Project Manager
505 Van Ness Ave, Room 5213
San Francisco, CA 94102

Supervisor Diane Jacob
County Administration Center
1600 Pacific Highway
San Diego, CA 92101