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pointed at the hearing examiner’s recommendation and would urge the lull SCC to reject it.
Rappahannock County Administrator John McCarthy said he and the Board of Supervisors were “disappointed but not terribly surprised’’ at the official’s recommendation. The county formally opposed the project and hired outside counsel to argue against its construction through Rappahannock in the SCC hearings.
McCarthy said there is one aspect of the hearing examiner’s recommendation that is somewhat “gratifying,” however. In his report, Skirpan recommended that the SCC locate the new transmission line “partially or wholly within existing transmission right-of-way for the entire path in Virginia.”
If the SCC embraces that recommendation, McCarthy said, it may mean that Dominion will take only 60 feet of additional right-ofway along the existing line, rather than 100 feet. That narrower rightof-way may require the utility to remove the existing lattice-work towers and replace them with two parallel lines of tall monopoles, which are less visually intrusive, McCarthy suggested.
Skirpan, who presided over a lengthy series of public hearings on the proposed line, accepted the utility’s basic case that the project was needed to serve the growing
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