We looked for every opportunity to co-locate with existing rights-of-way and other available space to minimize impacts to communities and sensitive resources.
Of the route options, the proposed route is the shortest, limiting the need for new right-of-way and also minimizing, to the greatest extent possible, impacts on the environment, historical and cultural resources.
And with 92 percent of the route located within the undeveloped and former Southeastern Parkway and Greenbelt roadway study corridor or co-locating with existing Dominion Energy transmission line corridors, the proposed route also limits direct impacts to private property and the community.
Over the course of 2022, the Virginia State Corporation Commission will carefully evaluate the proposed route and the route alternatives and eventually determine the final transmission route for the CVOW project.