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Sumner County asks TVA to reroute proposed transmission line away from historic Gregory family farm
Summary
The Sumner County Commission unanimously adopted an amended resolution urging the Tennessee Valley Authority to use existing easements and avoid routing a high‑voltage transmission line across the Gregory family farm and Wallace Road community, after public comment and map-based amendments.
The Sumner County Board of County Commissioners unanimously approved an amended resolution asking the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to route proposed high-voltage transmission lines outside the Gregory family farm and the Wallace Road community.
The measure, introduced by Commissioner Jeremy Mansfield (identified in the record as 'Mister Mansfield'), replaces earlier language with a version accompanied by a map that, Mansfield said, narrows acceptable routes to existing TVA easements from the 1970s. "There is a TVA line projected to come across our farm, take up about 28 and 9 acres," John Gregory told commissioners during public comment, describing…
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