[folubode]

Hi all

I would appreciate personal and diverse opinions on the pros and cons of buying and building on a section that distriplan shows 110 & 240 electricity transmission lines will pass through. We're fall in love with a section and recently find from the distric plan that 2 electricity transmission lines will pass through the section in near future.

regards

[mylesdw]

Are you sure about those voltage figures? It's just that I can't see why there would be 110V lines unless for some special purpose. Likewise 240V lines would be pretty small stuff, the sort of thing that feeds a very small number of houses.

[kiwishred]

The '110V' is likely to be 100 kV. This seems to be a standard for 'high tension', long distance, power transmission. Some pretty serious voltage, large towers, audible buzzing noise in high humidity conditions, and bad effects on property values due to perceived or real health effects :(

[folubode]

yeah, it's 110kv and 220kv electricity transmission lines - so bad that two separate of such lines runs through a section

[Fern01]

I'm not a health freek, but I sure wouldn't buy where there are high voltage powerlines close by. As has been said, when its' time to sell, the price reflects the problem, perceived or otherwise.
When we were looking for a property a few years back, we also loved one place where the lines went through, my hubby went to take a look, stood under the lines, he could hear the buzzing from the lines, and he vows and declares he felt tingles in his neck, he is not one to imagine things.

[GrumpyGoat]

High voltage power lines shed enough electricity to make fluorescent light bulbs glow. (http://www.doobybrain.com/2008/02/03/electromagnetic-fields-cause-fluorescent-bulbs-to-glow/) With no wires.
There is info (http://www.lessemf.com/faq-shie.html) here regarding "what is the safe distance of people and power lines?" from the lessen EMF site.

If you google "high tension power lines health risks" or "high tension power lines safe distance" you will get more hits than you can manage.

Personally, I have rejected homes that are within 2 km of a high tension power line. It's just one of those risks that isn't necessary IMO.

[Super_BQ]

I have rejected homes that are within 2 km of a high tension power line.

I myself would never consider buying a house near such power lines. Even my wife will never consider buying a house with a power sub box on the end of the driveway (big square metal box that often sit by the footpath). Though I would consider being 2km away is a bit excessive. I just can't see how even being 1 km away from the high power transmission line can show up any significant EMR. One would get more EMR standing next to a kitchen microwave

[John Z]

I myself would never consider buying a house near such power lines. Even my wife will never consider buying a house with a power sub box on the end of the driveway (big square metal box that often sit by the footpath). Though I would consider being 2km away is a bit excessive. I just can't see how even being 1 km away from the high power transmission line can show up any significant EMR. One would get more EMR standing next to a kitchen microwave

The issue is not only EMR.

I know because I've battled the Dutch government about it for many years. They know me there...

Even modern town houses often have a 10.000 Volt cable in their front lawn, which they are not aware of.

Electro magnetic radiation can be measured up to 600 meters from High Power Lines.

Have you ever heard about "corona ions"? This link will take you to some of the material from Henshaw that I used;

http://www.phy.bris.ac.uk/groups/hreg/coronapapers%5B1%5D.htm

The governments are resistant to accept it, but from my medical-pharma career I remember another publication that found a new way of getting medication through a cell membrane, using the same mechanism. Hence, when they can use it to get medication through a cell membrane, the same mechanism is explained for harmfull material to pass through the cell membrane.

:cool:

[John Z]

I'm not a health freek, but I sure wouldn't buy where there are high voltage powerlines close by. As has been said, when its' time to sell, the price reflects the problem, perceived or otherwise.
When we were looking for a property a few years back, we also loved one place where the lines went through, my hubby went to take a look, stood under the lines, he could hear the buzzing from the lines, and he vows and declares he felt tingles in his neck, he is not one to imagine things.

Some people are more receptive than others. The buzzing sound, especially when it is wett outside, is the sound of the forming of corona ions, explained in the former post.

[folubode]

thanks a million to eveybody - always appreciate people in this forum.

[Fern01]

The buzzing sound, especially when it is wett outside, is the sound of the forming of corona ions, explained in the former post.
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My hubby rang the power co. concerned, they went out to check and found an insulator was breaking down, they were not impressed that the fault hadn't been found by their workmen.

[GrumpyGoat]

Though I would consider being 2km away is a bit excessive.

When in depth researching this exact topic a number of years ago, I calculated that a safe distance from the massive high tension lines that we have in the US was nearly 5000 feet. Which is almost a mile. Which is about 2 km.

Wish I had kept my files when we moved to NZ and I could give you detailed reasons for this calculation but I didn't and now too much time has passed for me to recall the exacts. I just remember "one mile" and I stick by it.

[John Z]

When in depth researching this exact topic a number of years ago, I calculated that a safe distance from the massive high tension lines that we have in the US was nearly 5000 feet. Which is almost a mile. Which is about 2 km.

Wish I had kept my files when we moved to NZ and I could give you detailed reasons for this calculation but I didn't and now too much time has passed for me to recall the exacts. I just remember "one mile" and I stick by it.

I take it that you had different distances for different power lines though?

Do you remember based on what you made those calculations?

I still have the official Dutch reports and maybe they are in English too (they did that very often for the European Commision)