Joshua Falls–Yeat corridor named Virginia’s Most Endangered Historic Places

Preservation Virginia has named the nine-county corridor targeted for Valley Link’s proposed 765 kV Joshua Falls–Yeat transmission line project to its 2026 list of Virginia’s Most Endangered Historic Places.

• Designation & scope: Preservation Virginia, nominated by the Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC) and the American Battlefield Trust with eight partner organizations, named the 115-mile Joshua Falls–Yeat corridor (proposed 765 kV) one of Virginia’s Most Endangered Historic Places; the project would require a 200-foot-wide cleared corridor and could clear over 2,500 acres across nine counties (Campbell, Appomattox, Buckingham, Fluvanna, Louisa, Orange, Culpeper, and possibly Goochland and Spotsylvania) with a new Yeat substation near Richardsville and connection toward Morrisville in Fauquier County to deliver power to Northern Virginia data centers.
• Process & timeline details: Valley Link Transmission (a joint venture of Dominion Energy, Transource, and FirstEnergy Transmission) plans the Joshua Falls–Yeat line; the project is scheduled to come before the Virginia State Corporation Commission for approval of a final route in September 2026; Valley Link will hold another round of community meetings after June 2026, and the public may submit comments via Valley Link’s online GeoVoice portal and to the SCC in the fall; detailed maps and GeoVoice links were provided in the release.