Rock Hill, Lake Wylie traffic impacted by nuclear plant equipment move. How to avoid it
Another large equipment move for the Catawba Nuclear Station could impact Rock Hill traffic this week.
A transformer will be moved from the Norfolk Southern rail yard in Rock Hill to the Lake Wylie power plant on Saturday. A specific time hasn’t been announced, and the move time depends on weather and other factors. When the move happens, it will slow traffic.
The Winthrop University area will be impacted. The southbound side of the Allison Creek bridge on S.C. 274 will close for three or four hours during the delivery.
Duke Energy, the company that runs Catawba Nuclear, will provide updates on Facebook at @DukeEnergyNuclear and X at @DE_Nuclear.
The equipment will take six to eight hours to go 14 miles, according to Duke Energy. The route runs from Winthrop onto Cherry Road, then turns right onto Heckle Boulevard before it becomes Old York Road.
It will turn right again on S.C. 274, or Hands Mill Highway, before another right onto Concord Road where the nuclear station is.
The transformer will be installed during a refueling outage this fall. It’s the last of four transformers upgraded at the station.
In January, Duke Energy moved another 650,000-pound transformer on a similar route from Rock Hill to Lake Wylie.
Edwards Moving & Rigging will move the Hitachi-built equipment that went to Spain before arriving by ship in Charleston. It came by rail to Rock Hill.
This story was originally published August 27, 2024 at 2:10 PM.
