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Philip Irwin, President
Rappahannock League for
Environmental Protection
What is the Riverton-Boston Project? Potomac Edison proposes to build a 138,000 volt transmission line roughly from the northernmost to the southernmost corners of Rappahannock County, the entire vertical distance, dividing the county about in the middle. Why is this proposed transmission line needed? Potomac Edison wishes to establish its own new transmission route within a narrow finger of geographical territory which extends thru Rappahannock from its immense franchise area north of Virginia. The Virginia Electric Power Company territory surrounds this finger of Potomac Edison franchise on three sides and several cooperative power companies are within it, serving rural families the big companies didn’t care to. Who would benefit from the line? Potomac Edison Power Company will benefit by having established its very own line to bring power from its power-short area in the north to the south of its territory where in several years there will be a surplus of cheaper power available from VEPCO’s atomic plant in Louisa County. Potomac Edison’s customers in Rappahannock, Madison, Culpeper, Greene, Orange, and Page Counties will not benefit from this line in any way that they would not benefit by obtaining power from VEPCO without this line.
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