A proposed high transmission powerline is meeting some resistance in the northern Valley.

The Potomac Appalachian Transmission Highline, or PATH, would run through West Virginia, Virginia and Maryland.

On Sunday, residents filled the auditorium at Handley High School in Winchester to voice their opinions. The PATH Awareness Team hopes to calm some of the worries.

Winchester resident Jerome Lane says, "Two of our neighbors will be so severely impacted that their properties will lose all monetary value. The PATH easement will cut directly across the middle of one lot making it impossible for anyone to ever build on it."

Clint Miller, on the PATH Education and Awareness Team, says, "This area gets the benefit from it also, but also if they did not get the direct benefit, they still get a benefit because this line is a part of the structures being put in place to build up and strengthen the national grid altogether in order to keep from having blackouts or brownouts in the future."

According to the PATH project, the transmission line is an additional leg of the Eastern Inter-Connection.