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which would be placed 1,000 feet apart. Dominion and its partner, Allegheny Power, would share construction costs for the 40-mile segment.
Dominion would be responsible for construction of the roughly 30-mile portion in Loudoun, Prince William and Fauquier. Allegheny would pick up the tab for the remaining 10 miles of line in Warren and Frederick. Anderson said it would take 18-24 months to build the line.
For reasons unclear to those at PEC, Dominion eliminated much of Loudoun County from its corridor study area. Miller dismissed the idea that Loudoun officials’ “persuasive powers” caused Dominion to remove most of the county from the study area. He believes it did so to find a “path of least resistance,” he said.
Dominion wants to avoid protected areas, including land under conservation easements, battlefields and historic districts, Anderson said. But the study corridor includes Great Meadow, a 200 acre-plus equine center south of Interstate 66 near The Plains. It remains to be seen how a power line route would affect the facility.
Arthur W. Arundel, chairman of Times Community Newspapers, which includes the Fauquier Times-Democrat played a major role in developing Great Meadow. Arundel serves as chairman of the nonprofit Great Meadow Foundation, which operates the facility.
PEC takes the position that any transmission line anywhere would be unacceptable. The organization has no interest in pushing the project into another area, Miller said.
That would feed into a “divide-and-conquer” strategy, which would serve Dominion’s purposes and dilute the opposition’s, said Fauquier Board of Supervisors vice chairman Harry Atherton (Marshall District), who participated in Monday night’s panel discussion.
“Please, let’s all stick together on this,” Atherton urged the audience.
PEC consultant Mitch Diamond said it would be financially impractical to bury the proposed transmission line. Burying a line would increase
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