RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Dominion Virginia Power’s preferred route for a high-voltage power line over the James River has won state regulatory approval over objections it would mar a historic stretch of the James.

The decision by the State Corporation Commission leaves to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers the final say on the 500-kilovolt line between Surry County and a new switching station in James City County. More than half of the 8-mile transmission line would span the James on towers rising to 300 feet.