The lines are located east of the Blount Island Marine Terminal. A 2020 study found raising their height would cost $30 million — a price tag JEA expects to rise.
, I-TEAM and general assignment reporter– JEA and JAXPORT are looking to raise the height of power lines over a portion the St. Johns River so that bigger ships can travel safely through the port.
Chief Operating Officer Raynetta Marshall said the utility is updating a 2020 study to determine the cost the move the power lines higher. The Army Corps of Engineers is now also putting pressure on JEA to raise these lines, saying the lines need to be at least 20 feet higher to make way for larger ships and threatening to use its authority to move them if they’re not up to standards, because they’d be obstructing ships.“Ships are getting bigger and the dredging that’s going on at the port would literally be wasted if the lines were not raised,” Baker said.
But in addition to making the port deeper, JAXPORT says, those bigger ships also need more space overhead, meaning the power lines will need to be raised.
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