The Town Council has granted the easement to National Grid to resume its cable work at Fred Benson Town Beach. But, it wasn’t quite a slam dunk for the big utility.National Grid had to suspend its work on the cable reburial project last spring after debris clogged the conduit that was to carry the new section of cable from shore to a point offshore where it would be spliced to the cable to the mainland. The work to get to that point took months and involved drilling tunnels 30 feet beneath the ocean floor.
The work occupied most of the two parking lots at Fred Benson Town Beach and National Grid and Orsted, the company thatowns the Block Island Wind Farm, which also has a cable that needed reburying, were supposed to restore the area “to itsprevious condition.” Orsted successfully completed its work last winter.There have been complaints over the summer, mostly about flooding in the south lot after heavy rains. Councilor Martha Ball, at the first meeting devoted to the granting of the easement on Friday, Sept. 24, had questions about the planting of beach roses in the north lot.With the area to be disturbed again, and
