Entergy Louisiana says you may see Entergy crews along Gatlin Road, Bankston Road, and Cedar Lane in Hammond, along a seven mile stretch of U.S. Highway 51 in Ponchatoula, and near the Tangipahoa Parish sewer treatment plant on U.S. 51. As part of the U.S. 51 projects, they’re working to acquire the environmental wetlands permits to access some of the remaining poles that are not accessible by road. They said they plan to complete this work in May 2020. Crews are also working projects along Perrilloux Road in Madisonville. Crews are inspecting and replacing insulators and associated hardware, securing loose grounding wires, increasing lightning protection, and inspecting and replacing wooden poles where necessary. Entergy says the work will isolate and minimize outages, help detect outages faster, and increase electrical capacity to support growth. Entergy plan to trim trees along nearly 500 miles of line this year. Crews have already finished one-third of the work as part of our strategy to accelerate tree trimming ahead of hurricane season. Their teams are heavily concentrated in Robert along Highway 190 and Highway 445 and in Independence on Highway 40 and Highway 442. That work is focusing on reducing the threat of damage to power lines from downed limbs or trees throughout the northern area of the parish.
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