Commission considers possible TransWest routes

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) officials gave a presentation to the Carbon County Commission July 16 about the TransWest transmission-line project’s visual impact on scenery along Highway 789.

Four potential routes were presented during the meeting. Presented was a route that runs through part of eastern Sweetwater County and part of western Carbon County; another that runs through a small portion of southern Sweetwater County and Carbon County and takes the lines closer Baggs; another that runs through western Carbon County and takes the lines between Baggs and Dixon; and another that r...