MASON CITY – Alliant Energy has upgraded 90 miles of its electric delivery system in Cerro Gordo County, the company announced.
The project began in January of 2018 and should be completed in the fall of 2019. The total project investment is $25,462,631 for 180 miles of overhead and underground electric lines that feed Mason City.
The upgrade is needed because of the advanced age and condition of the existing lines in town. Much of this year’s work is associated with the Highway 122 construction project and upgrades at one of our substations.
“This circuit has performed well for many years, but it is reaching the end of its useful life and needs modernization to meet the future needs of the area,” said Marty Mensen, senior manager of customer operations.
Alliant Energy’s 2018 Power Iowa Plan includes investments in overhead and underground electric lines, electric substations and natural gas infrastructure. Power Iowa’s goal is to improve the energy grid, reduce outages and provide more reliable power to Alliant Energy’s customers.
18 thoughts on “Alliant Energy investing millions in rebuilding electric lines in Mason City”
Too bad the owners of the sneakers are still not in them !
Hope the city administrator reads this. he came here under the pretense that he cleaned up neighborhoods is Keokuk so when is he gunna clean up ours?? I complained about a neighbors yard and shape of their house, its unsightful, and what was done, NOTHING. Think he needs to light a fire under suberls ass or get rid of him. if he comes to your house, a big “IF” all you have to do is give him a bad time and hassle him and he wont come back. Come on Mr Burnett, show us what you did in Keokuk and clean up this town. Not hard to see where the blight is, just drive around town,
Let me know if you continue to be ignored. Sorry, your name isn’t Robin, so you might get treated like a second-class citizen. Living in MC is like being on an airplane – some get hot towels, cookies and champagne and free butler service (see: installation and upkeep of sculptures by city employees). The rest get the crumbs on the carpet they don’t want.
I’d sure like $30K worth of “crumbs.”
I don’t make up the rules, I merely play by them. Don’t be jelly, just drive by in awe and dream about the success that has eluded you. See you back here a few times today, and everyday.
PS: $30K is crumbs. Ask the engineering company that got over $400K from us rubes in River City for designing parking ramp plans that will never be used. I bet you voted for the morons who OK’d that.
Are you sure you’re not just over invested in your yard and house and put that standard on everyone? some people don’t have the time or the interest. Others don’t have the money to waste on yard work. Some people rent you know. There is no point in investing in a rental and lots of landlords around here let their house fall into disrepair while racking up that $600 a month rent. Some people are willing and want to improve their home but their scumbag landlord is taking way to much money and putting none of it back into the structure or the yard. Just because for you a nibe yard is a point of pride does not mean everyone else gives a damn. Really you waste money on gas to cut plants that never stop growing you pollute with exhaust and noise with zero regard for your neighbors work schedules or sleep schedules. Half you people in mason city think it’s ok to now grass into the street like nobody rides motorcycles. Yard obsessed people are rude, insecure, inconsiderate boring people with nothing better to do than pump chemicals into the grass so they can run into the sewer and into the river. You’re actually all being total dicks.
When you crackas see da sneakers hangin from da powa lines it mean dat ma crew has claimed dat hood. Don’t tread where you don’t be havin business. South side bangas 4 life. Word.
MAGA
Alliant Energy investing millions is bull crap. They are upgrading old wire with newer technology at the expense of the electric users.
The article should say, “ALLIANT CUSTOMERS SPENDING MILLIONS UPGRADING THEIR SERVICE LINES.
Brilliant observation……. Mr. Obvious!
New lines to get our local produced power by those foreign owned UGLY windmills to the east coast /chitcago/deadtroit etc. Nothing here to crow about unless you own their stock.
They should have buried power lines years ago as they are unsightly. Now if Mediacom would also get rid of their pole lines, the town would look a bit better.
Of course, in some cases, it is like putting lipstick on a pig.
There are a lot of properties that would do better if a CAT D9 were allowed to do it’s job, most of them rentals. And people wonder why no one wants to invest in our community. Look around.
And the City just lets it happen.
And just how is the Neighborhood Services Department working out for the City? Just driving around will tell you it is an abject failure.
Your consistently negative comments on the site are like putting lipstick on a pig!
There are plenty of positives in our community, however the detractors outnumber them. Should we ignore it? Should we let it thrive?
It’s easy to just look the other way, maybe it will go away. Right?. But what you will end up with is a community that will not prosper. It will shrink and shrivel on the vine like a morning glory after a hard freeze.
If it makes you uncomfortable when deficiencies are pointed out publicly, so be it. But accepting the status quo means you have given up, or are perhaps part of the problem.
I think our community can change for the better. I think it can look and act better. And there are others who feel the same.
Just look at what Dr Lala has done to his old building. There are many good examples of what a little effort and pride can do in Mason City. There are also glaring examples of what a lack of enforcement will become. A drive down north Pennsylvania Avenue from 5th Street to Elm Drive will show the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Which part do you want to associate with?
They should of let MC go dark the world would be better off.
It is going to cost them some more. They tore up my yard with their drilling machine, cracked my new sidewalk in three places and pulled up another section. You should see what they did to the neighbors. One lady had no work done in her yard but they parked the drilling machine there overnight and tore the hell out of it the next morning.
i just want to know how much higher our bills will be
They already raised your bill 11% this year to supposedly cover it.