The Army Corps of Engineers issued a final permit Thursday allowing Dominion Energy Virginia to build a high-voltage transmission line across the James River, from Surry County to Skiffes Creek in James City County.
Dominion has said it needs the line to ensure a reliable supply of electricity to the Peninsula and to make sure that transmission problems here don't spread more widely.
Historic preservation groups said the line, which would be carried across the river on 17 towers, some as high as 295 feet, would mar the site of the first English settlement in the United States.
