After the wind and snowstorms of 2015, KEC was awarded more than $10 million in special grant funding from FEMA to convert approximately 50 miles of our most problematic overhead lines to underground. KEC hired contractors to complete much of this work and KEC staff served as inspectors for the jobs. There were more than 20 separate jobs, and I served as the inspector of the job on the south side of Mica near Lake Coeur d’Alene. This was an approximately 5.6-mile-long project that involved relocating and replacing overhead power lines with an underground power line and reconductoring the remaining overhead power lines.
