Final Environmental Impact Statement - New Federal Courthouse

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Public Services and Utilities City of Eugene The Eugene Water and Electric Board (EWEB) provides electrical power in Eugene. Retail sales in 1997 totaled 2,540,906,598 kilowatt hours (kWh). The utility owns five generating facilities that produce a total of 664,540,000 kWh of electricity. EWEB supplies electricity in excess of its generating capacity through power purchases from the Bonneville Power Administration, the Grant County Public Utility District, and three private power producers. EWEB owns and operates a total of 143 miles of transmission lines and slightly over 1,000 miles of distribution lines. Electrical transmission and distribution lines in downtown Eugene are generally underground, including all of the electrical distribution lines in the vicinity of the project alternative location. Electrical lines neaz the Alternative 2 site are described below. Figure 19 shows the locations of the electrical service lines. The Chiquita site (formerly Agripac) has electrical utility lines on all sides. Electrical lines on the north are located on the other side of the Southern Pacific Railroad and would not be affected by activity on the Chiquita site. The remaining edges of the site aze bordered by predominantly overhead electrical lines, with some buried lines on the opposite side of East 8th Avenue as well as at the southeast and southwest corners of the Chiquita property. An overhead line is also located in the center of the site running south towazd Ferry Street. A buried line that originates at apad-mounted transformer near the center of the property runs to the western edge of the site. Several pole-mounted transformers are located within and along the perimeter of the site. Natural Gas Service Northwest Natural Gas provides natural gas service in the vicinity of both of the alternative sites in Eugene and Springfield. Each alternative site is briefly described below. Figures 18 and 19 show the locations of the gas supply lines. Alternative 1 A high-pressure natural gas line runs north-to-south along the western boundary of the Riverfront site in Springfield. The majority of the line is outside the property boundaries (roughly 75 feet away on average), although a portion of the line passes through the northwest corner of the site. Four additional low-pressure gas lines enter the site roughly at the main crossroads (West C, West B, West A, and Main streets). Alternative 2 A high-pressure gas line runs along the western and southern borders of the Chiquita site ~ .` (formerly Agripac) in Eugene. The line parallels Highway 99 to the west of the site and East 8th Avenue to the south. An additional low-pressure line also runs along East 8th Avenue but is farther away from the site than the high-pressure line. A single branch from the low-pressure line enters the site from the west in the vicinity of the wastewater treatment plant. i New Federal Courthouse 143 Final EIS ~ _ ,,