Agricultural land in northern Harford County is being targeted for an industrial-scale solar facility. Chrome Hill Solar, LLC has applied to the Maryland Public Service Commission to convert approximately 45 acres of working farmland off Rigdon Road in Jarrettsville into a 5.0-megawatt commercial power plant — roughly 34 football fields of prime Maryland soil covered in thousands of industrial solar panels and chain-link security fencing for the next 40 years.

To connect the facility to the grid, the developer plans to trench 1.8 miles of new underground 33 kV cable along Rigdon Road — a narrow rural road.

What this project would actually do

• Permanently destroy prime farmland. USDA classifies 66% of the site as Prime Farmland and 96% as Prime Farmland or Farmland of Statewide Importance — among the best soil in Maryland. Harford County has spent decades and millions of dollars preserving exactly this kind of land through the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation. This project undoes that investment, parcel by parcel.
• Harm streams, wetlands, and forest.
• Cut new industrial infrastructure through a residential road. 1.8 miles of underground trenching along Rigdon Road.
• Destroy rural viewsheds.
• Not lower your electric bill. This is a community solar project. Its output is sold into a state subscription program. It will not reduce electric rates in Harford County, and it will permanently convert farmland the County cannot replace.

Sign this petition and help us stop the solar facility on Chrome Hill and Rigdon Road.

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