This is sort of a sequel to my pix posted Aug. 22 in this album "Power Lines To Go Underground". This involved the removal of overhead lines for the restoration of tidelands on Tillamook Bay on the Oregon Coast, near where I live. This photo is looking north along the alignment "road".

The removal consisted of 2 power lines of the Tillamook P.U.D. and telephone and TV cables attached to the poles. The line removed to the east of Highway 101 was a main distribution feeder built by the PUD in the 1940's to carry it's power from the Garibaldi substation north to towns along the coast. The line to the west was also a feeder running south along the coast and took a short cut across the bay tidelands at a river entrance. This was the original route of the power lines running from the long gone steam power plant 8 miles south in Tillamook and the power lines used the bay alignment to serve the towns on the north coast of the county.

I call it the Coast Power alignment because the first power lines in the area were built by Coast Power Co. in the early 1910's and used this route. Coast Power sold out to Mountain States Power Co. in 1925 and Mountain States retained this alignment and tied it's 22,000 volt lines into a power plant at the Garibaldi lumber mill nearby and that line continued up the coast to serve towns farther north. Mountain States was merged into Pacific Power & Light in 1954 and Pacific retained this alignment as well until 1961 when the P.U.D. purchased the PP&L properties in this county. The P.U.D. retained this alignment until summer 2010 when the Federally funded wetlands restoration began. Click NEXT to see some last shots of poles on this alignment forever (except for 1 pole, I will explain later). The scenery is outstanding also, as is all of it around here!