The illustrations represent the actual layout of the    facility, and they are to scale for the 0.93 acre lot. The tallest structures in these pictures are the poles which carry the lines into and out of the facility.  The poles are about 90 feet tall. The "H-bars" are the second tallest structures at about 30 feet high. Because of the natural terrain (about a 20-foot drop) on this lot, Georgia Power believes that a two-tieredfacility would be most efficient and cost-effective to construct, even hough it is not operationally or visually desirable. Conforming to the terrain results in what appears to be an upper and lower platform. The lot will have to be totally cleared and partially excavated in order to facilitate construction. Note that neither the containment / detention portion of the facility nor the external screening / barriers are shown in these illustrations. Georgia Power assures NoSubstation.org that there is plenty of room for all these items.

Proposed Electric Substation

Georgia Power has already addressed the challenges they would face in building a substation on this portion of land. They have admitted that they have never attempted to build a substation of this magnitude on a piece of land roughly only one acre in size. According to Georgia Power representatives, they recognize that they might have to take different measures to erect the substation and guarantee its success. The implications of these admittances are unclear, but residents might postulate the company’s future interest in buying up more space. If so, the amount of possible industrial sprawl is uncertain, but the impact of the sprawl on the entire community would most certainly be detrimental. There is simply no way to guarantee how and when industrial growth could be curtailed once it gets a foothold in our door.

There are already two different Georgia Power substations in a close proximity, and it is important to note their more appropriate location. The first substation lies within the 4600 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road, across from the California Pizza Kitchen restaurant. The second substation lies behind the Cambridge Square shopping center off of Johnson’s Ferry Road. Both of these substations sit a discrete distance off of the road, and both substations are surrounded by commercial, not residential, areas. Can Georgia Power not find a similarly appropriate location now?