Where Not To Place Utilites

I noticed three power company engineering utility stakes in the developer's recently repaired slope support area.

See illustration on the right:

Wooden Stake P1 designated the location for a new electric company power pole.

Wooden Stakes A2 & A3 designated the location for two ground support anchors.

Two Suspension Steel Guy Wires A2 & A3: would attach to the New Power Company Pole P1 to support the load strains of the power company's pole line system. (Hold the pole/s up straight)

In this particular case:

The distance from the dead end power company pole P1, (shown), and the next power pole in series was 530 feet. (This was 30 feet beyond the Power Company Standard in allowable distance between power; ("Telephone Poles").

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The strain or pull on the Power Company Poles, ("Telephone Poles"), from a 530 foot aerial span of high tension power company lines would be of a high factor.

Major Adverse Factor; This slip repair of debris and topsoil was not locked into the ground, thus settlement and future movement of the slip repair area would mean the power company pole/s and anchors would move along with it.

High Tensioned Power Company Utilities and Phone Company Utilities are rarely placed in the area of a legitimately corrected slip, (Outside a DOH engineered slip repair).

This particular so called "engineered slip repair" is the most illegitimately concocted commercial slip repair areas ever encountered.

The average citizen could surmise that this area would not be suitable for utilities whose structural support is based on the strength of the ground area.

With the above in mind; there are Additional Factors:

Other utilities and non-utilities would place their own guy wires and cables on said power company poles and anchors. This would have created additional weight and stress factors in excess of the Power Company Facilities.

All things considered; In this case the Power Company Pole Line would have simply fell over.

An Example Of Loads And Stresses

Cell Phone Towers Collapse In West Virginia, Killing 3

A 300-foot cellphone tower collapsed Saturday and minutes later a smaller tower fell, killing two contractors and a firefighter, authorities said.

Company Cited For February Tower Collapse In Harrison County

The collapse of the first tower put stress on a guy wire that weakened a second smaller tower that also collapsed.

2008 - Power Company Notification

I notified Allegheny Power's Engineering Department that their engineering stakes were in a recently repaired slip and was in an encroachment area.

The Engineer informed me that the corporate entity that they were engineering the service for, had individuals with them. The corporate entity never notified them of either of these two facts. The main fact that their engineering stakes were in a recently repaired slip Unnerved them, as it would any legitimate Utility Engineer. (The Power Company could have built a power line in this area that likely would have pulled over). Additionally; The Power Company Engineer/s had no idea that the area was a recently developer engineered slip repair.