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Long live the Eastern Gateway or how I learned to love the Anaheim City Council after the election.
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lazyboy97o
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It’s only a hub if it’s from the Húb region of France, otherwise it’s just sparkling plaza.
dlr74
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I believe it was in discussion to build a CM parking structure on the current CM parking lot at the corner of Harbor and Ball (referred to as "Harbor Lot" or "H-Lot" by CMs).
I watched the live stream of one of the Anaheim City Council meetings and one of the coucil members asked about this specific parking structure and the construction noise impact to the elementary school right next door (the blue roofed buildings in the photo). From what I recall the Disney spokesperson said something like the majority of construction being done during a summer break and weekends/evenings when children aren't present.
Old Mouseketeer
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Well played, Sir! Couldn't have said it better myself.
(My favorite version of that meme is "It's only Naziism if it comes from Bavaria--otherwise it's just sparkling fascism.")
Old Mouseketeer
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I'm not sure the context was that clear at all. YMMV.
Disney Irish
Premium Member
Given that the conversation is about the EGW project and the Avatar expansion in the EGW thread I would figure its pretty obvious that we're not talking about the Hub around the Castle but rather the Transportation Hub where the EGW is going.
Disney Irish
Premium Member
Preliminary work for the EGW which starts fall 2026, specifically looks like utility work.
AJFireman
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Here is what the Anaheim Project finder website has . There are also Phase II plans
ArcGIS Web Application
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Here is what the Anaheim Project finder website has . There are also Phase II plans
ArcGIS Web Application
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Ok, thanks!
chadwpalm
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So I found an Orange County Power Transmission map online (had to sign up for a 7 day free trial) that could possibly help in understanding what is happening here.
The red box on the right is the Lewis Substation. It is a large substation that handles both 220kV lines and lower under 100kV lines. The pink lines are the ones you see down Disney Way and had to be re-routed south around DCA when it was being built.
A blue line connects Lewis Substation with the Katella Substation which seems to feed the area around it, including down Katella to the west. It looks like the line goes from above ground to below ground at the corner of Katella and Lewis before heading west to the Katella Substation.
Zooming in a bit more, notice the box I created in purple. This will correlate to the Project ViewFinder map that @AJFireman posted above. According to what I see in Google Street View that is all still underground.
According to a map on the California Energy Commission, the line going under Katella is 69kV. Nice!
Here is the Project ViewFinder map:
As previous indicated, there are two phases. Phase 1 is the orange portion on the top left as @AJFireman pointed out, and phase 2 is what I highlighted which is the cyan colored line. Notice it originates from the purple box location on the corner of Zeyn St. and Katella, swoops around Hampton Inn through the northeast corner of the Toy Story lot, and works its way up Anaheim Blvd and then down Disney Way to meet up with phase 1 and comes back around to terminate on the northeast end of the Pumbaa lot where the Eastern Gateway will be.
I'm no civil engineer, but it looks to me like they are bringing additional high voltage (under 100kV) to cover Toy Story, Eastern Gateway, and eastern DLR maybe to spread out the load when Infinity Defense and Avatar are built?
The only oddity is that the titles of projects are "Harbor Substation Line Extension Phase I & II", but there isn't any indication of a substation on Harbor. Could it be a typo and they meant Katella?
The red box on the right is the Lewis Substation. It is a large substation that handles both 220kV lines and lower under 100kV lines. The pink lines are the ones you see down Disney Way and had to be re-routed south around DCA when it was being built.
A blue line connects Lewis Substation with the Katella Substation which seems to feed the area around it, including down Katella to the west. It looks like the line goes from above ground to below ground at the corner of Katella and Lewis before heading west to the Katella Substation.
Zooming in a bit more, notice the box I created in purple. This will correlate to the Project ViewFinder map that @AJFireman posted above. According to what I see in Google Street View that is all still underground.
According to a map on the California Energy Commission, the line going under Katella is 69kV. Nice!
Here is the Project ViewFinder map:
As previous indicated, there are two phases. Phase 1 is the orange portion on the top left as @AJFireman pointed out, and phase 2 is what I highlighted which is the cyan colored line. Notice it originates from the purple box location on the corner of Zeyn St. and Katella, swoops around Hampton Inn through the northeast corner of the Toy Story lot, and works its way up Anaheim Blvd and then down Disney Way to meet up with phase 1 and comes back around to terminate on the northeast end of the Pumbaa lot where the Eastern Gateway will be.
I'm no civil engineer, but it looks to me like they are bringing additional high voltage (under 100kV) to cover Toy Story, Eastern Gateway, and eastern DLR maybe to spread out the load when Infinity Defense and Avatar are built?
The only oddity is that the titles of projects are "Harbor Substation Line Extension Phase I & II", but there isn't any indication of a substation on Harbor. Could it be a typo and they meant Katella?
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Disney Irish
Premium Member
Thank you, good find. I figured it was utility work related to EGW, but just didn't dig that deep to find out what specifically.
Could it be that they are adding an additional substation as part of the EGW?
chadwpalm
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I was wondering that myself.
Disney Irish
Premium Member
Would make sense especially if the EGW is going to add extra load that the current substation can't handle.