Underground cables will reduce visual pollution in Panama

(newsroompanama.com) Visual pollution in Panama will be reduced over the next four years as the tangle of power lines that are strung along streets start to disappear.

At a cost of $23 million, Union Fenosa will replace the overhead power lines with underground cables in Panama City, Santiago and David in a four-year period beginning in March 2011 and will culminate in July 2014, said Sebastian Perez , head of distribution for the Utility.

The tender for the companies responsible for performing civil engineering work will be in November. The power interruption during the change of location for underground cables will be only four hours, not days, said arepresentative of Union Fenosa.

In Panama City  the looks of via Brazil, via Espana. Avenida Federico Boyd Avenue and Calle 50  will be improved, at a cost of $18,774,876 while in Santiago, the works will be from Central Avenue to the American way, covering 3.7 km at a cost of $ 1,817,640.
In David, work around the Cervantes, Park will cover covering 2.2 km at a cost of $836,443.

The excavated areas will have cameras that will prevent water during floods, while the transformers hanging on poles are some on the floor next to sidewalks and other for lack of space will be under the ground, said Perez.

The impact will be visual, and dramatically improves damage to cables by birds, lightning and drivers who crash into power lines.

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Date Retrieved: August 28, 2010.