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A group of Fauquier County citizens joined Sunday night with members of the Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection to oppose one more high-powered electric transmission line which is being proposed to run through Rappahannock as well as Fauquier, Warren, and Culpeper counties.
Ti.f iew plans were revealed to more* than a hundred concerned landowners from both counties at a meeting called by RLEP President Philip Irwin at the Flint Hill Fire Hall. The new proposal is by the Virginia Electric Power Company which does not service any part of Rappahannock County. Their plans, which have been before governmental bodies of Fauquier County since last May, call for a 500 kv transmission line carried by 135-foot steel truss towers which would occupy a 235 foot right of way. The line would start at a 65-acre switching station at Morrisville in Fauquier County which would receive its power from the nuclear power plant now being built in Louisa County. It would then traverse southern Fauquier county, the edge of Culpeper county, then slice into Rappahannock County about a mile east of Amissville, go north across the Rappahannock River, into Fauquier County again, then into Warren County and would finally end up at Mount Storm, West Virginia where VEPCO is building a large coal powered generating plant
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