Year: 2014
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Transmission Line Comparison
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Community Action: Antioch Baptist Church
To Dominion Power: I am sending this e-mail as the designated representative of Antioch Baptist Church, located at 16509 Waterfall Road, Haymarket, Virginia. We have recently been made aware of your new proposal for running a 230 kV power line to Haymarket on a route Read More …
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Great paper on Eminent Domain in Virginia
A must read for those who may have lines and poles on their property! https://pstrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Virginia-Summary-2014.pdf
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Taking suggestions for a Virginia lawyer
If you have a suggestion for a lawyer that has successfully presented power line issues before the Virginia State Corporation Commission we would appreciate knowing. Please send this suggestion directly to legal@protectpwc.org (no comments on this one). This person should also have familiarity wit
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Dominion Power workers checking out properties
Some homeowners on Antioch road saw Dominion Power workers walking on their land recently … suggesting that the New Road alternative, foolish as it seems, may be a real alternative. Feel free to report sighting in the comments part of this post.
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The two pole tower is a stated option for this project
Just in case folks are thinking we are looking at the single pole option the Dominion Proposal clearly shows the two pole towers are an option as well. See https://www.dom.com/library/domcom/pdfs/electric-transmission/haymarket/typical-structure.pdf. Also keep in mind that these “smaller tower” R
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How can a 20 ft wide power easement become a 120 ft wide easement?
Most of the folks in the direct path are wondering how a normal 20 foot wide power easement can suddenly become a 120 foot easement with no due process? Although some people have stated this can be done under “eminent domain” – but I wonder Read More …
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Town of Haymarket Report on Datacenter and Powerline
A very nice report: Town Of Haymarket Report – click to download (note it is big so give it minute – please also note that IE may have an issue but it works fine in Chrome – go figure) that shows what the Town Of Haymarket carefully Read More …
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Why is Dominion Power in the NOVEC service area?
If anyone has a specific answer to why Dominion Power feels free to run lines though areas that buy their power from NOVEC please put in comment below.
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Virginia Underground Power Line Report to SCC
This 2006 report can be found at: https://jlarc.virginia.gov/reports/Rpt343.pdf. It is over 150 pages long and contains a lot of information relevant to our struggle. Highlites they cited include: Technologies are available to enable electric transmission lines to be placed underground. Except when