Balcony Falls - Skimmer

Built in the 1920s, two 115 kilovolt (kV) transmission lines need to be replaced to maintain electric reliability. The lines are in a 9.2-mile right of way corridor that runs through Rockbridge, Amherst and Bedford counties. The existing wooden H-frame and steel lattice structures will be replaced with a combination of brown, weathering steel H-frame and steel pole structures.

• Project area is 9.2 miles long
• Right of way width is primarily 125 feet wide with some 100-foot sections
• Average H-frame structure height is 46 feet
• Average lattice structure height is 80 feet
• 85 structures in the corridor
• Average height of structure in double-circuit section from Balcony Falls-Cushaw is 94.2 feet
• Average structure height in a single-circuit section from Cushaw-Skimmer is 60.5 feet
• 74 total structures in proposed corridor
• Maximum structure height increase of 63 feet in Balcony Falls-Cushaw section
• Maximum structure height increase of 17 feet in Cushaw-Skimmer section