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called for by club president Nic Kortlandt.
After describing Vepco’s powerline plans, and noting that “no agency has control over it,” he said if action is not taken soon, local farmers will wake up to find 13'5-foot towers, measuring 235-feet across at the base, marching over the beautiful Blue Ridge and down through Fauquier and Rappahannock.
IN DESCRIBING the area as “farmland,”Kuncewicz acknowledged that its primary asset is notits farming potential. “This is not farm land, but we still have some farming because land values have been going up. If those people are allowed to bring this monster through, the land values within sight of this thing will go down.. .Nobody will come up here anymore and buy 100 acres and pretend they’re farming. They’ll come here now because its beautiful, and the pretense of farming comes later.”
If Vepco needs to bring in more power, it should channel it through existing powerline corridors, argued Kuncewicz, who owns the Virginia International Equipment Company in Gainesville. “They should go only where its already messed up.”
KUNCEWICZ described Vepco as “a big company that has everything to press
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