Here in New Jersey we dial 811 and they come out and put little flags.
The electric, phone, cable, gas, water, sewer, storm drainage etc.
are marked. Basically whoever put anything in the ground will come and
mark it, whether it is on your property or in a utility easement
(which is also private property incidentally).
The service is free. I guess it's cheaper than repairing a broken
water main or severed electric wire, fiber or worse yet a gas line.
I've seen my neighbors do it even when installing something as simple
as an invisible dog fence.
Ryan, N2RJ
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Gary E. Jones <garyejones@cmaaccess.com> wrote:
> An issue that people may need to wrestle with is........ do they mark the
> lines that run on your private property?
>
>
>
> Several years ago, I installed an in-ground swimming pool. Unfortunately,
> where the pool was designed to be, was dead center for where two 200A 240
> lines were coming into the house below ground. Although I guessed that they
> were there (by the line of sight method between where the above-ground
> transformer was and the service entrance on my house), I called the
> utilities to mark the lines. My electric utility was SWEPCO (Southwest
> Electric Power Company). They dutifully marked their lines in their right of
> ways, but there was no line marked up to my house (the whole point of the
> exercise). AT&T marked theirs up to the house, the cable people marked
> theirs, but SWEPCO did nothing beyond their ROWs. When I specifically asked
> the man doing the marking, he informed me that "we don't mark private
> property".
>
>
>
> Now, this from the same company that ran 3 or 4 commercials a day showing a
> man and his son ready to dig in their back yard until his helpful wife
> reminds him that he could get electrocuted, and he calls SWEPCO to mark
> their lines in his backyard..... (Yea, right !!!!)
>
>
>
> I happened to also have my "lawn irrigation man" here that day marking some
> lines, and he used his underground wire tracing indicator to find the 200
> amp service leads (it sounds like pure 60 Hz hash in his earphones) and he
> traced the lines for me. His traces were perfect....
>
>
>
> Point of story..... make sure that they will mark your lines (the lines
> from their transformer to your house are "yours", not theirs.
>
>
>
> 73
>
>
>
> Gary W5FI
>
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