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Manassas Park council hears Dominion Energy on crossing-arm failures tied to suspected stray voltage
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Dominion Energy told the Manassas Park City Council that repeated failures of railroad crossing arms at Manassas Drive appear linked to stray voltage correlated with recent transmission line work; a consultant's preliminary engineering study is expected next week and Dominion plans mitigation work with Norfolk Southern.
Dominion Energy representatives told the Manassas Park City Council that recurring failures of the railroad crossing arms at Manassas Drive appear linked to stray electrical voltage correlated with recent transmission-line upgrades.
Calvin O'Dell, the city's director of community development, said Norfolk Southern technicians told staff they had been tracking a stray-voltage issue at the crossing "for nearly 15 years," and that the voltage had recently spiked at the same time Dominion increased voltage on a nearby transmission line. "They had said that recently ... the stray voltage they were tracking had increased," O'Dell said.
Rob Mason, who identified himself as an engineer…
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