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Foothills utility project adds a new chapter to Salt Lake City's trail wars.
Salt Lakers who walk or bike along the Foothills trail system might have noticed a few changes recently.
An access route at Edgehill Road in The Avenues, where Rocky Mountain Power is working to mitigate fire risks. Salt Lakers who walk or bike along the Foothills trail system might have noticed a few changes recently. Last month, Rocky Mountain Power (RMP) began phase three of its fire mitigation project.
This project seeks to replace aging, wooden transmission poles with new metallic ones to lower the risk of wildfires. But to get to the transmission poles, RMP dug anywhere from 10- to 20-foot-wide access roads along existing platforms or trails in the Foothills.
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