More than four years after Camas leaders urged Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) officials to reconsider plans to place high-voltage transmission lines on an 80-mile stretch of land winding through Southwest Washington and Northwest Oregon, the controversial project has come to halt.
BPA officials announced today that they will not build the I-5 Corridor Reinforcement Project, which would have sited 3.6 miles of 500-kilovolt transmission lines within Washougal’s Urban Growth Area, across the Washougal River, into Camas’ Groot Park region and across the Columbia River from Camas to Troutdale, Oregon.