Funny utility company story

[DeniseM]

I came home yesterday to find that the gas company had been at my house and marked my yard, side walk, and street with neon yellow paint and flags from the street to my house. No idea why.

This morning about 6:30 am, I heard someone outside and went to investigate. It was ATT using neon orange paint and flags to mark the same area.

I said, "Hey, what's going on?"

Utility guy said, "You are getting a new gate so I'm marking your utilities."

I said, "I know, but the new gate is on the other side of the house."

He politely informed me that he had to follow his orders, which were to mark this side of the yard, finished the job, and left.

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

 

[presley]

That's interesting and I guess it makes me feel better that it happens in other areas that aren't my neighborhood. Recently, a neighbor was going to redo his driveway with pavers. Every company, ATT, SDGE, Cox, etc. was painting/marking the sidewalk in front of his house and also on the side street next to his house. I thought some major project was going on. The cost of sending those people out must have been huge. Several people standing there for literally hours every day, often supervised by city employees, measuring and marking up stuff and the home owner was just putting pavers in the driveway, which wasn't near any of the paint.

 

[SueDonJ]

I'm guessing this is because of DigSafe or whatever it's called in your state? The same thing happens here, they come out and mark up any underground utilities regardless of what you're doing wherever. It would be great if we could limit their survey to only the section we plan on having work done but I'd bet that almost as soon as they relaxed the rule, a lawsuit would be filed due to a problem caused by a homeowner expanding the work/sections after the survey.

 

[Passepartout]

They put in a new water meter here, and there are so many marks (blue, yellow, orange) in the street/sidewalk that it could be misconstrued as a hopscotch pattern. They have to fix the pavement, but not sandblast off the paint. Sheesh!

 

[ronparise]

modern society demands a complicated infrastructure. In my neighborhood we have electric, cable and phone lines, water, sewer, irrigation and stormwater . It makes for a complicated mess underground.

More than once Ive broken my irrigation lines planting a new tree

I suspect its easier and a whole lot cheaper to mark this stuff before any project gets started than to fix it after a mistake especially if you have gas lines in the area.

 

[DeniseM]

This is the thing - he acknowledged that his work order was for the wrong side of the house (it should have been for the left side and they marked the right side) but stated that he had to follow it anyway.