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need to “do everything because it’s going to take everything.”

Jackson District Supervisor Ron Frazier and Wakefield District Supervisor Roger Welch, who represent the districts where the corridor is located, were in attendance at the meeting, as was Piedmont District Supervisor Eddie Wayland and County Planning Commission Chairman Charles Strittmatter.

Rappahannock has entered the power line fray as part of one of Dominion’s alternate proposals to a transmission corridor that was proposed along Interstate 66 in northern Fauquier County, where the power company has faced stiff opposition from landowners.

The new proposed route, which would be built adjacent to an existing right-of-way would also run through southern Fauquier and northern Culpeper counties as well as Prince William County. Compared to the 1-66 plan, the new route will be 28 miles longer and cost $210 million rather than $150 million to build.

Both the original and the existing right-of-way proposals, as well as a $1.7 billion proposal to bury the line along 1-66, will be put up for approval before the State Corporation Commission in April. McCarthy said Dominion officials told him the

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