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The computer study conducted by consultants Michael J. Ileo and Kenneth C. Strobl ran the basic course of the Vepco lines, but according to Bean zigzagged across the map. Bean said the computer route stayed away from “important environmental land” and “expensive property.”
Bean said that’s why the route ran back and forth from one farm worth $250 an acre to another, staying away from farms worth $500 an acre.
ANOTHER problem with the computer route, said Bean, was that it didn’t figure the “visual effect” of the lines. Bean said the
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