For a rarely traveled dirt road, Eastonville Road north of Falcon High School has been a center of activity this spring – at least from an infrastructure point of view.In May, Black Hills Energy laid a 6-inch natural gas pipeline along Eastonville Road, from Latigo Boulevard to Falcon.Corey Kocha, an engineer for Black Hills Energy, said the new pipeline connects an existing pipe near Falcon High School to a high-pressure line the company laid last year. That line runs from Meridian Road to Eastonville Road, along Latigo Boulevard.With all the pipes connected, the subdivisions in the area served by Black Hills will be double fed, for extra integrity, Kocha said.”We’re planning down the road as we can afford,” he said. Those plans include building a district station at the corner of Latigo Boulevard and Eastonville Road.”In the future, there’s always the possibility we can stem off that station for developments as they come up,” he said.The company also plans to extend their high-pressure pipeline eastward along Latigo Boulevard for eventual connection to their high-pressure pipeline that comes from Fountain, Colo., and runs along Highway 24.In June, Mountain View Electric Association put up poles and strung electrical wire along Eastonville Road from their Meridian Ranch substation on Latigo Boulevard to Falcon.The work was done to improve reliability of electrical service, said Darryl Edwards, manager of MVEA’s member services department.Finally, the county patched the potholes that have accumulated on the paved portion of Eastonville Road. The paved road was put in last year.
