Solar construction on the 80-MW Powell Creek solar project in Halifax County is damaging local roads, according to residents.
According to SOVANow, heavy truck traffic is leaving local roads with multiple large potholes. At a Board of Supervisors meeting on 4 April, a VDOT representative said his office had gotten a lot of complaints but that the “roads wasn’t built to handle that kind of traffic.”
If that’s true, why was the project approved without mitigation measures already in place to prevent the damage?
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