Green Mountain Power outlines three-mile undergrounding on Londonderry circuit

Tim Jones of Green Mountain Power told the Londonderry Selectboard the utility has scheduled a targeted rebuild of one of the town's worst-performing circuits and expects to place most of the new main line underground.

"Londonderry is on 1 of those worst performing circuits," Jones said, describing a plan to place about "95% of this line" underground along a roughly three-mile stretch from Thompsonburg Road to the private-customer terminus. He said the work will include replacing culverts 24 inches or smaller "in kind," providing construction-notification letters to affected households and producing a look-ahead schedule the town can use to anticipate contractor activity. Jones told the board the project would move from installation to energizing and retire the old line over a period of months, with completion "by August at the latest" under the current construct.

Board members sought clarity about service connections and sequencing; Jones said the utility will cap buried services at homeowner locations to facilitate future individual tie-ins and that landowners who want immediate service upgrades will coordinate with GMP designers. The presentation emphasized outage reduction as the primary goal and included a commitment to provide the town with notifications and a contractor schedule so local officials and residents can plan for lane-control work and limited interruptions.