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Stafford residents meet with Stafford County Board of Supervisors about the proposed Dominion Virginia Power transmission line project in Stafford Date published: 10/28/2006
By KAFIA HOSH Stafford County supervisors and area residents who oppose the route of a proposed transmission line in the county looked at alternative options for the Dominion Virginia Power project Thursday night. Supervisors Paul Milde, Mark Dudenhefer and Bob Gibbons met at the Shelton's Run home of Buddy Secor, the team leader of Towering Concerns, a group of Stafford residents who are fighting the power line route. The county supervisors and Towering Concerns brainstormed to prepare for the Virginia State Corporation Commission's public hearings on the project in January. The planned line runs five miles westward from Aquia Harbour to Mountain View Road and will connect to a proposed substation off Garrisonville Road. The energy company says the substation would bring the area a more reliable source of power. But local residents say the high-voltage line will cut right through their dense communities, and they want Dominion to find other routes for the line. "Our best avenue is rerouting," Gibbons said. Still, Secor and the supervisors were careful about proposing to reroute the line, because it could affect other neighborhoods. "We're opposed to flipping this to somebody else," Secor said. But a new route is not a likely option, said Dominion spokesman Karl Neddenien. Dominion bought the right of way for the line in the 1960s. The current project is for one power line, but Dominion has the right of way to build two more lines to accommodate growth in the county, Neddenien said. "We can't positively say when" the additional lines will be built, "but if development continues the way it has, we do expect two more lines there," he said. The Towering Concerns team and the supervisors also looked at proposing an underground line. If a bond referendum on the Nov. 7 ballot to widen State Route 630 passes, supervisors might propose that Dominion build an underground route beneath the corridor. Neddenien said while industry standards show underground lines cost ten times as much as overhead routes, Dominion has not estimated the price of building an underground line.
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