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above the dock on the fishing pond between his and his brother’s houses.
On hot summer days when consumers have their air conditioners cranked up and electricity demand is at its peak, Petty said he can hear the lines hissing and popping from his house several hundred feet away.
“I didn’t realize the damage it would do,” he said. “After a number of years, you would think you would get used to it, but I haven’t.”
Still to this day, Petty says he never signed a contract with Vepco - the precursor to Dominion - to allow the power company to use his land.
“I told them, 1 don’t want your money, you don’t have enough money,’but it didn’t stop them,” Petty said.
“It’s not right. We five in a democracy,” he said. “Landowners should have more to say about their property.”
The average height of Rappahannock’s existing power towers ranges from 90 to 160 feet with an average of 115 feet, said Jim Norvelle, Dominion’s director of media relations. New towers would be about 130-feet tall, he said.
“Some towers may be taller, some towers may be not as tall,” he said.
Norvelle said federal standards dictate how tall the towers must be, and that height is measured according to how much the lines will sag between structures and the type of terrain they cross. A larger number of closely spaced towers would allow Dominion to build shorter structures, he said.
Dominion is scheduled to submit its application for the new corridor to the State
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