A pedestrian walks through the snow in Washington Park on Friday, Feb. 8, 2013, in Albany, N.Y. Parts of the New York region still cleaning up from Superstorm Sandy are bracing for a winter storm that's expected to blanket the Northeast with heavy snow Friday and Saturday. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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A pedestrian walks through the snow in Washington Park on Friday, Feb. 8, 2013, in Albany, N.Y. Parts of the New York region still cleaning up from Superstorm Sandy are bracing for a winter storm that's expected to blanket the Northeast with heavy snow Friday and Saturday. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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Walter Jacob stands on the peak of a roof Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, in the Ocean Grove section of Neptune, N.J., as he works to seal the leak around a weather vane at a home damaged by Superstorm Sandy. The region is bracing for the threat of a snow storm in the next few days. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
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Jack Biondo ties a tarp down to protect donated supplies from a coming storm in the New Dorp section of Staten Island, New York, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. Residents of New York and New Jersey who were flooded out by Superstorm Sandy are waiting with dread Wednesday for the second time in two weeks as another, weaker storm heads toward them and threatens to inundate their homes again or simply leave them shivering in the dark for even longer. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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CORRECTS DATE TO NOV. 7, INSTEAD OF NOV. 9 - Axel Benitez, 7, his mother Lucia Figueroa, second from right, and his baby sister Jelannie, in the stroller, evacuate from Coney Island with the assistance of friends, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012 in New York. A new storm that threatened to complicate Hurricane Sandy cleanup efforts on Wednesday now looks like it will be weaker than expected. Winds could still gust to 50 mph in New York and New Jersey Wednesday afternoon and evening. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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Gina Kohm tries to keep a tarp from blowing away which covers a pile of donated supplies at an aid station in the New Dorp section of Staten Island, New York, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. Residents of New York and New Jersey who were flooded out by Superstorm Sandy are waiting with dread Wednesday for the second time in two weeks as another, weaker storm heads toward them and threatens to inundate their homes again or simply leave them shivering in the dark for even longer. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Waves crash into a seawall and buildings along the coast in Hull, Mass., Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. A high-wind warning is in effect in the state until Wednesday night, with gusts of up to 60 mph expected in some costal areas, and 50 mph gusts expected for Boston and western Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
NYC will study burying power lines after Sandy
NEW YORK (
AP) —
New York City is set to scrutinize the pros, cons and costs of burying power lines after Superstorm
Sandy.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed off Monday on having his office research whether it makes sense to put more wires underground. The City Council voted to commission the study earlier this month.
Sandy knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of customers around the city. Many outages endured longer in areas with overhead lines.
The research will include analyzing weather-related outages for above-ground and below-ground lines. The study also will estimate the expense of burying wires and recommend where that might make most sense.
Utility Consolidated Edison has said it looks forward to participating in a discussion that should examine both benefits and costs of burying lines.
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