Dominion Energy’s troubled 500-kV overhead transmission line crossing the James River in historic Colonial Virginia has hit another challenge, but the company says there will be no further delay to the line’s completion date. A lawsuit against the beleaguered line, however, threatens its completion.
The utility delayed construction of the 17 foundations that will hold the lattice towers, some as tall as 295 ft, across the tidal river because it had to double the length of a floating pier to accommodate the river’s tidal flows. The pier is used to load concrete trucks onto barges.