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Detour to keep W&OD open during power line work
The W&OD Trail will be detoured starting Dec. 1 from just west of Leesburg to the west end of Dry Mill Road, just short of Clarkes Gap, while Dominion Virginia Power puts its 230,000-volt transmission line underground.
The detour will take hikers, bikers, equestrians and skate boarders through the Shenstone subdivision and then parallel to the existing trail past the Loudoun County Fairgrounds.
Dominion and the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority cooperated to negotiate the detour and keep the trail active during construction of the underground portion of the transmission line it is building from east of Leesburg to Purcellville.
The detour will start at mile marker 36 on the trail, between the Woodburn and Thomas Mill Road intersections with Dry Mill Road. It then crosses private property and intersects with Cannongate Drive, before turning south and running parallel to the trail. It will merge into the existing trail at mile marker 38, where the trail crosses Dry Mill Road, just before the Dry Mill/Route 9 intersection.
The Park authority cautions those on the detour trail to use extreme caution – segments of the detour are sloped, and about a half-mile is shared with the road. Most of the detour is on private property, and trail users must stay on the trail. Users should never enter the construction zone nearby.
Contact the reporter at jershan@comcast.net
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