(Radio Iowa) – Officials say construction of a large wind farm in central Iowa is on schedule to be finished by November. James Stovall, site manager for Apex Clean Energy, says the Great Pathfinder wind project will stretch into both Boone and Hamilton counties. “All of our public roads are completed,” Stovall says. “We’ve cement-stabilized the roads in both counties which will give you a good sub-base going forward to be able to maintain those roads and you’ll have some really nice roads to to use whenever we’re finished.”

Stovall says trenching operations for the turbines began last week, while deliveries of the turbines and blades will begin early next month and conclude by October. “We’re just over halfway done on our turbine foundations,” Stovall says. “We’re almost 100% complete on our excavations for those foundations and we anticipate being finished with all the concrete foundation work probably within the first week of August.”

Apex says up to 200 people are working on the project site in both counties. When complete, the turbines will have a capacity of 224 megawatts, enough to power 56-thousand homes.