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believes the effects of establishing another transmission line corridor along an existing one would be far less than creating a new one through the northern Piedmont, as Dominion originally proposed last fall. At the same time, the preferred alternative also would meet the power company’s electricity transmission goal, he said.
But Culpeper and officials strongly object to the route through their counties.
“I just think it’s a roundabout way to get power to Northern Virginia,” Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors Chairman Robert Anderson said. “I’ve always been told the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. This isn’t a veiy straight line.”
Culpeper supervisor Brad Rosenberger said he’s talked to residents still smarting over Dominion’s construction of a power line through the county some 30 years ago.
“They’re opposed to this” new line, Rosenberger said. “We had one crammed down our throat — I think it was in the 70s — and now they want to do it again.”
Like Anderson, he believes Dominion should put the line or a new power plant in Northern Virginia, “where they say they’ve got to have” electricity.
Of the preferred path, Rosenberger said: “They’re (the utility company) going around the bam to be where they need to be.”
Detailed maps of the proposed corridor are available for public viewing from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday at the Rappahannock County Administration Office, 290 Gay Street in the Tbwn of Washington.
E-mail the reporter at cidelrosso@timespapers.com
Rappahannock News Staff Writer Kevin Allen contributed to this report.
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