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Applicant TRI-STATE GENERATIONAND Case Number USR15-0049
TRANSMISSION - SWEP PHASE II
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Hearing Hearing
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I hereby certify that the items identified herein were submitted to the Department of Planning Services at
or prior to the schedule lanning Commissioners hearing.
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Kim Ogle I F)anner
From: DDech8o29(oaol.com
To: Kim Oale
Subject: USR15-0049
Date: Tuesday, November 03, 2015 7:15:01 AM
Dear Kim,
I am too busy on the farm to attend today's hearing on the Tri State powerline. So I thought I would
email my comments to you to pass along to the planning commission.
Tri State is proposing to put their transmission line parallel to an existing Excel transmission line
through Section 19, 2N, 65W, which I own. The Excel powerline runs East — West.
I question the need for so many transmission lines in the area. Only two and a half miles north there
are two more Excel transmission lines both running East — West. That makes three East - West lines
for Excel.
Rather than Tri State condemning my land for a another transmission line, I would rather they condemn
Excel's line through my property; it's already there. Or put in a new double transmission line and then
remove the old one when the new one is up and running. I would give them the right of way for free if
they did that.
I know Tri State and Excel are two different companies and I also question why they both have to be
operating in the area. I always thought the reason power companies are granted monopolies in their
service areas was to avoid a duplication in facilities. Yet duplication is what they propose to do on my
farm.
Instead they just want to run all over everyone's land. My use of the land for anything other than
farming will be greatly diminished. They even affect my farming as they are difficult to farm and spray
around and I cannot stack hay under them either.
sincerely,
David Dechant
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