Disappearing High Tension Lines

Not far from where I work, there is a golf course and a tennis club. In the bad old days, these both were just a cleared out area where the power lines and their unsightly towers ran through on their way from the electric power plants in El Segundo and Playa del Rey on the way to distribution points east.

Planners decided at some point that the wires were not a desirable feature and found a way to run these high wires underground. I took this panorama from the east end of the subterranean power line run to the west end where the towers resume. You can see the lines disappearing as they plunge into the ground at the near end. The golf course is directly behind the tree line along the street running from left to right. I circled the west tower where the lines come back up about a half mile in the distance on the far right end.

power line

I sometimes walk down to this end of the run from the building where I work, which is at the far end of the run in this picture. About a mile round trip and a good after lunch walk.

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