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lines hanging one on top the other. Guest said. “They’re just flat ugly... It’s a shock to me that something like that could be put up without some sort of formal proceedings.”
The delegate said he wasn’t in a position to judge if more power is needed in Rappahannock, the reason PotEd has given for the increased voltage. “That’s something that the State Corporation Commission and the power company will have to answer,” he said, pointing out that PotEd is charged by law with supplying enough power to meet customer demands.
But when informed that the transmission line will increase available power by 1,115 percent next year while the Virginia Office of Planning and Budget estimats that the county’s population will climb only 18 percent by the year 2000, Guest said, “Where they get the idea they need something like that is beyond me. I just can’t see how they (PotEd) expect Rappahannock County to have this kind of demand in the foreseeable future.”
Asked about the chances of persuading the utility to put the new transmission lines underground, Guest said that to bury the line, the utility would have to put in a six-foot conduit filled
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