Developers of your offshore wind farm around eastern Long Island presented an agenda to bring power to Long Island through a cable that would generate landfall at Smith Level County Park on Hearth Island.
Representatives from Orsted as well as Eversource responded this week to community concerns about the location of the strength line and its impacts with their community — both in land and at beach.
John Case, the overseer of permitting at Eversource Electrical power, said the power cable tv would come on-shore inside parking area of Cruz Point Park and run over the William Floyd Parkway into a power substation in Holbrook.
"When we’re evaluating routes for our on-shore converter cables, we take a look at a crowd of criteria from technical feasibility, together with human, social impacts, along with environmental impacts, and we try to balance all of people, " Case said.
The developers said they're working with the community of Brookhaven, Suffolk County and state officials to build a 20-year package of benefits for any residents to offset traffic and construction impacts.
They said additionally they look to bring other economic benefits to alternative towns by sourcing community materials, employing Long Region contractors, and hiring nearby union labor for development.
Mike Evans, the allowing manager at Orsted, said the plans to the Sunrise Wind project situated 30 miles east with Montauk point were evaluated by the federal government.
Evans said their plan mitigates environmental impacts in addition to protects marine life.
“We’re focused on doing collaborative science, dealing with the recreational fishing sectors to conduct monitoring, just before, during, and after engineering, " Evans said. "We’ll be designing the project avoiding and minimize any from the sensitive habitats, like difficult bottom areas and seagrass regions. We’ll be using tools to minimize these has effects on by drilling underneath this intercoastal or drilling underneath the beach in avoiding impacts there. ”.
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