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Council pauses National Grid's Tall Tree Drive undergrounding petition after outage and outreach concerns
Summary
National Grid described conduit installation on Tall Tree Drive that will require a temporary outage; councilors pressed the utility for robust resident outreach and contingency plans and recessed the petition to Nov. 10 to allow more information.
National Grid representatives briefed the Beverly City Council on Oct. 20 about two separate undergrounding petitions and fielded questioning about service outages and customer outreach.
Ismael Miku, National Grid distribution designer, explained a Hale Street petition (to install a handhole and conduit to serve 293A Hale St.) and then presented the Tall Tree Drive plan: roughly 545 feet of conduit, two heavy-duty handholes, and a pad-mounted transformer connection intended to replace existing direct-buried cable. He said the work will improve resilience and ease future maintenance but will require short scheduled…
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