Electricity transmission lines for Saddleback Ridge Wind Project being placed under Carthage road

: Crewmen with Underwood Electric Inc. of Presque Isle and Mapleton watch fellow crewmen on Wednesday morning laying electricity transmission lines at the bottom of a trench on Winter Hill Road in Carthage for Saddleback Ridge, a 34.2 megawatt, 12-turbine wind project for Patriot Renewables of Quincy, Mass.

: Underwood Electric Inc. crewmen at right watch on Wednesday morning while fellow crewmen lay electricity transmission lines underground in a mile-long trench that travels the length of Winter Hill road in Carthage for Patriot Renewables’ 12-turbine Saddleback Ridge Wind Project.

: A crew working for Reed & Reed Wind Power Services of Woolwich recently installed these towering utility poles beside Route 2 on Morrison Hill in Carthage and was busy Wednesday morning laying electricity transmission lines from the poles in a trench running a mile up Winter Hill Road. Wires from the poles will cross Route 2 and be placed on wood poles in a clear-cut strip through woods for seven miles to a proposed substation in Canton near Central Maine Power’s 115 kV regional transmission line, according to the Saddleback Ridge Wind Project’s fact sheet.