The 90-minute public comment during last night’s Board of Supervisors meeting was taken up primarily by eastern Loudoun residents hoping for support in their efforts to block overhead transmission lines planned by Dominion Energy.
The Golden to Mars project is one of several power line projects planned to loop through eastern Loudoun to ensure the regional grid stays reliable as the demand for power increases.
Residents of Loudoun Valley Estates, the neighborhoods located near the planned lines, county leaders and other civic organizations have pushed for the transmission lines to be buried underground…