In Michigan, we call 'Miss Dig' which is a separate company, PAID BY
Consumers' Electric, when we need this done.
They find ALL underground lines: phone, electric, natural gas pipe, etc.
The cost to the home owner is ZERO.
Perhaps your state needs to investigate this?
73
Don
N8DE
Quoting "Gary E. Jones" <garyejones@cmaaccess.com>:
> 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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