The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-03-25
VEPCO SPENDING So
MILLIONS ON ITS
POWER SYSTEM
Vast Expansion Program includes
$4,000 on Mays Head-C urri-
tuck Area; New Wires
Being Strung

OSHt9 SUuu9
The Virginia Electric and Power
Company will spend over $4,000,
900 on new construction this year,
according to Vepco president Jack
G. Holtzclaw. In this sum is in
Guided some $4,000 to be spent
in the area from Currituck to
Mays Head.
Included in the 1855 constluc-
ton budget is 100000 addi-
tional for the hydro development
being built on the Roanoke river
at Roanoke Rapids, and $7,300,000
for the completion of third gen.
Grating unit at the Postum Point
power station near Quantico, Va.
improvements to the present
electric and gas properties and
the extension of electric and gas
services to new customers will
cost almost $23,00O,00O, and So,
100000 is to be expended for
changes in the company's high
voltage transmission network.
During the past seven years,
vepco has spent $293,OO0,oOO on
construction and it is expected
that in the years ahead large an
nual construction expenditures
will continue as the need for i'm
proved and expanded service in
creases.
Appropriations for the Rich
mond- Petersburg area will include
100000 towards a storage, re-
pair, and maintenance shop in
Richmond, estimated to cost 5000,
600 upon completion in 1856;
$250,00O toward a dust collector
installation at the Chesterfield
Power Station, total cost on COM
pletion in 1856 estimated at $3.50,
900, and $150,000 toward a distri-
button service building in Peters
burg, to cost $25O,00O upon COM
pletion next year.
In the Hampton Roads area ex-
penditures will include $2.500,000
for completion of the addition to
the Portsmouth power station and
$500,000 for. the installation of a
heavy fuel oil system. In Norfolk,
Newport News, and Hampton.
where the company supplies nat
ural gas, Improvements and ex-
pansion of the gas system will
cost approximately $2,600,O00
Completion of the Norfolk office
and service building on Cromwell
Road (total cost $1,600,000) viii
require over 100000, and $755
600 will be spent during the yeal
on the Peninsula headquarter.
building to be erected at Hampton
at a cost of $1,000,000.
In Northern Virginia, in addi
ton to the $7,30O,O00 for compile
ton of the Postum Point power
station addition now under con.
struction, 100000 will be spent
during 1866 for enlargement Of
the company's Alexandria office
and service building expected tt
cost $36O,OOO.
New construction in Western
and Southside Virginia will in
clude an additional 100000 fol
the 10000 volt transmission lint
from Kerr Dam to Pamplin City
and $185,000 for a headquarter!
building in Charlottesville, ex
pected to cost $485,000 upon com
pletion in 1856.
In Vepco's North Carolina serv.
ice area, construction will include
81, 100000 additional on the Ro.
anoke Rapids hydro power plant
Other appropriations in the bud
get include $4,000 for a new
service building for the Roanoke
Rapids area; $4,000 for new
substation and feeder lines; g
$4,000 volt line between Winfall
and Snow Hill and the substatior
at Snow Hill costing 100000;
$4,000 toward the cost of a SINH
lar installation between Mays
Head and Kitty Hawk estimated
to cost $4,000 when completed in
1856, and rebuilding of the line
crossing Currituck Sound, $40,