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LETTERS to EDITOR
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Editor The Rappahannock News Washington, Virginia Dear Mrs. Latham:
I d like to add my voice to the power line controversy as a property-owner, tax-payer and friend of the County.
The power line apparently will not cross my land in the Wakefield District near Flint Hill. However, I shall have to look at it the rest of my life and suffer a loss of property value. I came to the County to escape the scenic and environmental degradation which afflicts northern Virginia in the Washington, D. C. area. My wife and I found what we needed in Rappahannock County-a rural setting with great scenic beauty and a friendly, decent people who know how to live. Now Potomac Edison intends to blight the County with an unwanted power line and in the process blight the lives of its people. Environmental blight is really something to think about, especially when it is caused by “the running of a line,” as in this case. Think about railroads and the squalor which goes with much of the track where people live, airports and the noise and pollution which attends them, pipelines (except where buried) and their hard impact on land and people and marine terminals which degrade and pollute. Think also of the controversy and severe social unrest which goes with the building of freeways through and around cities where people’s lives are blighted by overhead, roaring traffic adjacent to their homes. Power lines are no different-it just takes a little
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