Why Are We Doing This Project?

Vegetation near or that can fall on high-voltage lines can cause safety issues and power outages for thousands of customers.

To improve system performance, especially during severe weather events, arborists evaluate each right-of-way project prescribing utility vegetation best management practices.

Reliability programs focus on long-term transmission system reliability and resiliency by increasing the maintained width of the right-of-way up to 100 feet from the outermost conductor or the easement edge, whichever is closer.

This program improves system reliability by reducing the risk of tree fall-in and has proven to be an effective way to create a sustainable environment of vegetation that can safely coexist with the transmission lines. Our long-term management objective is to manage these newly cleared areas as early succession habitat and encourage the growth of grasses, forbs and shrubs.

Where Is The Work Being Done?

We will be working to expand the existing maintained cleared areas from Southington to Cheshire, with work crossing the following towns: Cheshire, Meriden, Southington and Wallingford. 

Please see project maps below for details. Click maps to enlarge.

Have Questions?

Keeping the lines of communication open is an important part of our work in your community.

For questions or more information about the project, please contact us at 1-888-673-9943 or CTVegMaintenance@eversource.com.