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the current study area for the transmission line but is chairman of the board of the nonprofit Great Meadow Foundation, which operates the 200plus acre Great Meadow just south of The Plains, close to Route 66.
A phalanx of 155-foot-tall transmission line towers adjacent to Great Meadow, Arundel said, “would be a serious blow to the ability to Great Meadow to operate public events.”
According to Dominion executives Bob Blue, Ronnie Bailey, Le-Ha Anderson and Smatlak, their customers will face power blackouts by 2011 unless something is done. The solution they have chosen is to build the Meadowbrook to Loudoun line.
PJM, in its filing with the Department of Energy, said that line will bring in power from “west of the Allegheny Mountains ... and points west.”
Most of those plants bum coal and their emissions play a major role in Northern Virginia’s air pollution woes.
Allegheny had earlier planned to run a high voltage line in its service area from Mt. Storm to Kemptown, near Damascus, Md., to resolve the same regional issues, according to Chris Miller of the Piedmont Environmental Council.
Dominion applied for the Loudoun line in June, and PJM preferred it, said Smatlak.
“Other alternatives fail to resolve the overloads in either Northern Virginia or the region,” according to the Dominion presentation.
See POWER, Page A2
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