High flying utility poles

May 10, 2022 12:00 am • Last Updated: May 10, 2022 8:11 pm

By Sean D. Elliot
Director of Photography

s.elliot@theday.com

A Bell 407 helicopter with JBI Helicopter Services of Pembroke, N.H., hovers over the shore of Deans Reservoir in Stonington to remove a utility pole from land owned by the Avalonia Land Conservancy and Aquarion Water Co. and transport it to a field off Maritime Drive in Mystic Tuesday, May 10, 2022. The project is a cooperative effort between the Denison Homestead, the Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center, Eversource, Avalonia and Aquarion. Eversource will be using land at the end of Maritime Drive owned by the Homestead to land, store and dismantle the poles after they are removed. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Residents of Mystic witnessed the unusual sight of 30-foot utility poles flying over their heads Tuesday.

A cooperative effort between the Denison Homestead, the Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center, Eversource, Avalonia Land Conservancy, and Aquarion Water Co. to remove the poles from a decommissioned transmission line running along Avalonia and Aquarion land in Mystic will help reestablish the 30-foot-wide corridor as part of the adjacent Atlantic White Cedar swamp.

A Bell 407 helicopter with JBI Helicopter Services of Pembroke, N.H., made the trip down from Manchester Tuesday morning and began shuttling the poles, as well as some dumpster bags of smaller debris from the project, across the Mystic skies shortly after 9 a.m.

Eversource will be using land at the end of Maritime Drive owned by the Denison Homestead to land, store and dismantle the poles after they are removed.

Eversource crews watch as the pilot of a Bell 407 helicopter with JBI Helicopter Services of Pembroke, N.H., lowers a utility pole removed from land owned by the Avalonia Land Conservancy and Aquarion Water Co. to a field off Maritime Drive in Mystic Tuesday, May 10, 2022. The project is a cooperative effort between the Denison Homestead, the Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center, Eversource, Avalonia and Aquarion. Eversource will be using land at the end of Maritime Drive owned by the Homestead to land, store and dismantle the poles after they are removed. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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The pilot of a Bell 407 helicopter with JBI Helicopter Services of Pembroke, New Hampshire, lowers a utility poles removed from land owned by the Avalonia Land Conservancy and Aquarion Water Co. to a field off Maritime Drive in Mystic Tuesday, May 10, 2022. The project is cooperative effort between the Denison Homestead, the Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center, Eversource, Avalonia, and Aquarion. Eversource will be using land at the end of Maritime Drive owned by the Homestead to land, store and dismantle the poles after they are removed. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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A Bell 407 helicopter with JBI Helicopter Services of Pembroke, New Hampshire, flies over the Denison Homestead in Stonington with a utility pole removed from land owned by the Avalonia Land Conservancy and Aquarion Water Co. and transport it to a field off Maritime Drive in Mystic Tuesday, May 10, 2022. The project is cooperative effort between the Denison Homestead, the Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center, Eversource, Avalonia, and Aquarion. Eversource will be using land at the end of Maritime Drive owned by the Homestead to land, store and dismantle the poles after they are removed. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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A Bell 407 helicopter with JBI Helicopter Services of Pembroke, New Hampshire, lands to refuel before continuing the operation to carry utility poles being removed from land owned by the Avalonia Land Conservancy and Aquarion Water Co. to a field off Maritime Drive in Mystic Tuesday, May 10, 2022. the project is cooperative effort between the Denison Homestead, the Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center, Eversource, Avalonia, and Aquarion. Eversource will be using land at the end of Maritime Drive owned by the Homestead to land, store and dismantle the poles after they are removed. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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