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One thing you guys don't realize is the red tape thats involved with ug utilities. If you find a trouble ug you cant just dig it up, many times you need a permit to break a sidewalk or the street, dig safe and all kinds of other crap. I work on an ug cable failure yesterday from 0730 till 0200 this morning. That's why I am home today. After 16+ hrs in a 24hr period we get the next day off with pay to rest for safety reasons. We had a 3" poly gas main going through the middle of our trench, which prevented us from putting on a heat shrinkable enclosure over the 900 pair cable. Now the gas company has to reroute the main, and we have to build a freaking manhole.
On a brighter note I heard through the grapevine theere is oing to be a more proactive stance taken with the old plant in the future. this means replace known faulty cables...
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