Neighborhoods with underground power lines?

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Anonymous wrote:All of Burke. We still lose power a lot though.

I'm in Burke, too, but we rarely lose power. The big exception was after the derecho, but other than that, very few times in 12+ years.

We are also in Burke, in a neighborhood with underground lines right near the Rolling Road VRE. We've lived here 9 years, and the derecho was the only significant power loss I remember. That was because a big tree took out the transformer on Burke Rd.

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Parts of Germantown MD. I rarely lost power when I lived there - however the sections that didn't have it did lose power.

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Have a home in the 16th st heights and has never lost power, under ground powerlines. Live in Bloomingdale(DC) and use to have power outages all the timer but they fixed it and now have no problems.

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SW DC never has outages which is, I think, a function of buried lines and having the PEPCO substation at Buzzard's Point.

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I'm in McLean, underground power lines. Lost power in the derecho, but not otherwise. Good commute to DC.

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Parts of Woodley Park have buried lines. We've never lost power in the nine years I've lived here.

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Anonymous wrote:Parts of Woodley Park have buried lines. We've never lost power in the nine years I've lived here.

Does anyone know the history of how some DC residential neighborhoods (or streets) came to have underground utilities and adjacent ones don't. For example, parts of Woodley have them, but they are above ground in other parts and in nearby Cleveland Park. In Georgetown the lines are buried but not in Glover. Lines in many parts of Spring Valley are buried but not in AU Park. Did DC once have a policy to force PEPCo to underground lines and then backed off? Or were there funds to bury utilities that ran out of money before spreading to other areas? Were there special zoning overlays that mandated underground lines in some places but not others?

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Anonymous wrote:We are on the Hill, have buried lines, and have never lost power. But the air above our backyard is absolutely full of mysterious wires. Phone? Cable? I don't really know.[/quote

Ditto. What are all the lines?? Remnants from bygone days??