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State regulators OK W&OD underground power
The State Corporation Commission has approved a request from Dominion Virginia Power that will keep the company's planned 230-kilovolt transmission line underground until it passes several farms at the northwest end of Dry Mill Road.
The power company's original plan, approved in May, put the terminal station – which brings the lines back above ground – directly adjacent to Dry Mill Road in a pasture belonging to Donald and Gretchen Kuney. The lines, as then approved, proceeded above ground, on towers 100 feet or taller, to a vantage point above the Route 9/Route 7/Old Colonial Highway intersection.
The plan approved May 28 gives the company permission to keep the lines underground for another 1,900 feet, and to put the terminal station on a wooded lot at the top of the hill instead of in a working pasture. Three land owners – the Kuneys, James Presgraves, and Johnathan Miller and Elizabeth Thompson – are giving the company the right to run the lines under their land at no cost.
The approved plan now has the lines going underground at a terminal station south of the W&OD Trail at the east end of the Shenstone subdivision. The lines will continue through Shenstone along the W&OD and its right of way, owned by Dominion, and then cross under Dry Mill Road just short of Clarkes Gap. After coming back above ground on the land now owned by Joephine and Mary Shepard, the lines will stay above ground for the remainder of their journey west – across the Route 7 Bypass, then west along Meadlowlark Drive and the W&OD.
Dominion plans to have power flowing along the line, from east of Leesburg to a substation at the W&OD Trail and Route 287 just east of Purcellville, by summer 2010.
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