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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.

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

We have create a high resolution flyer you file you can download here: [media-downloader media_id=”84″ texts=”powerline-flyer”].

Written in August about the first through Haymarket, it adds some more context to the wider effort now going on.  Click to open in a new tab or window: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/haymarket-gainesville-residents-fight-new-high-voltage-line-by-dominion-power/2014/08/29/8506dac8-2fbb-11e4-9b9

Good summary of what just happened in Gainesville and Haymarket and now are a concern for the entire region: https://www.northernvatimes.com/gainesville/article/dominion-proposes-gville-to-haymarket-power-line-extension.  Some key takeaways are: Looks like an Amazon datacenter is the likely power hu

Since the Dominion Power provided maps are a bit fuzzy I have done my best (but not perfect job) to translate it to a google map you can zoom in on.  Right now it is just the New Road Alternative but I plan to add Read More …

Never heard of the Virginia SCC?  Check them out at https://www.scc.virginia.gov.

Industrial scale power lines should take in HUNDRED YEAR timelines so the extra expense to bury them should be acceptable.  The people next to these lines will not benefit directly from these lines but will pay for them in visual impact, sound impact, property value impact Read More …

Some high resolution data on property lines.   Check out the Prince William Country GIS.