Land & Right of Ways Resource Library

• Landowner's Guide to Compatible Use of BPA Rights-of-Way
• Landowner's Guide to BPA Projects: Before & During construction
• Keeping the way clear for safe reliable service
• Living and working safely around high-voltage power lines
• Trees and Power Lines

BPA works with landowners to acquire and grant easements to private landowners and to operate and maintain transmission line facilities. Real Property services can be reached via the Realty Hotline, 1-800-836-6619 or Real Property Services Contacts.

• Use of Right-of-Way Application
• Transmission Tower Software (ATADS)

• BPA Geospatial Portal - interactive maps and apps
• BPA Service Area
• BPA Transmission Facilities
• BPA Transmission Lines and Facilities

A safe reliable transmission network benefits everyone, and that reliability is impacted by vegetation and structures that come too close to the lines.  

• Farming and High Voltage Power Lines: What to Know
• Power lines and crops can be good neighbors

• How BPA addresses EMF
• Electric and magnetic fields & transmission lines
• Electromagnetic fields and public health – World Health Organization
• A Review of the Current Scientific Literature on Health Effects of EMF – Golder Associates
• NIEHS Report on Health Effects from Exposure to Power-Line Frequency Electric and Magnetic Fields
• Question and Answers About EMF – NEIHS, NIH