Near Frank Kinney Park, workers for a utility contractor are filling a hole they just dug in the road. This helps them measure the depth of existing utilities before they move overhead power lines underground.

This is part of the Headwaters Trail Electric Reliability Project, an EWEB infrastructure plan that will replace wooden power poles in the area with metal structures and move some power lines underground in South Eugene. The goal is to make them more resilient to natural disasters.

In 2024, tens of thousands of people in Lane County were left without power during an ice storm where the ice toppled trees near power lines, leaving many without heat in freezing temperatures.

Tyler Nice, the Electric Division Manager at EWEB, explains that one part of the project is replacing wooden p

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