Mysterious Utility Box Shows Up In Resident?s Yard

[MrPrena]

What if it appeared on your front yard?
Can it be removed/destroyed since it is on the owners property?


https://denver.cbslocal.com/2019/11/...ower-yard/amp/

AURORA, Colo. (CBS4) ? Imagine waking up to find an electrical tower of some sort being installed in your front yard. An Aurora homeowner still doesn?t know exactly what it is, but she wants to know why it was installed without notice, and she wants it gone.....

[00tec]

They can put whatever they want in the easement

[ray1970]

First, I doubt there?s actually any electric going to it. It also doesn?t appear to have any real function and looks to be some sort of fancy dummy device. What would be the point of the spot for a meter? It also doesn?t really seem to be mounted.

Anyways, I?d take the gamble that it isn?t energized and accidentally knock it over with my truck in the middle of the night when nobody was looking.

[def90]

Would be a shame if you backed down your driveway with a large truck and hit it..

[SideShow Bob]

First, I doubt there?s actually any electric going to it.,

I?d take the gamble that it isn?t energized and accidentally knock it over with my truck in the middle of the night when nobody was looking.

Probably not yet, but the utility side of the meter is ready for Excel to hook up if they already haven’t and it won’t have a meter installed until the electrical inspector ( both State & local) inspect and put an approval notice on it. The construction permit should be posted on it though. But it could be in the customer side cover.

So knocking it over could be a shocking experience considering the pedestal is probably rated at a 10K amp dead short.

[Hummer]

Interesting. I encountered a similar situation. Subcontractors of utilities sometimes do stupid stuff when following the work directives of the utility. This woman has a power pole on the other side of her driveway which would be a far less intrusive location for the utility boxes. But it takes a thinking and caring person with the utility and/or contractor to place the box in a better location. In her position I'd probably threaten to sue, or sue if that didn't work. There's usually a better way to resolve a conflict.

Some years ago PSCO was replacing high transmission poles with smaller poles along the road by our farm. The contractor placed a new pole right in my irrigated field where it would interfere with my irrigation and field operations. It would also be constantly flooded. I told the contractor that if he didn't move the pole it would surely be knocked over by my tractor while working the field. The PSCO engineer called the next day and I showed him that he could easily move the pole 7 feet without interfering with anything and still be within the allowable span weight range for the lines. The pole was moved the next day, saving PSCO the cost of moving a downed pole after the lines were strung. (And I didn't even have to threaten a lawsuit.)

[O2HeN2]

5G small site cell tower. I would not be surprised if a small tower will be added later - that will thrill her even more.

5G requires towers as close as 500 feet apart to provide coverage.

Of course the promise was to put them up on existing light and telephone poles, but this is the reality.

O2

[Grant H.]

Yep. 5G small cell site. Welcome to what 5G is going to look like.

Another article from CH4 says it's been confirmed as 5G small cell site. They said that the plan is to put the antennas on the telephone pole already mentioned.

They'll likely run conduit from this back to the telephone poll if that is the case. Fiber and power run up the pole to the integrated radio/antenna packages.

Unfortunately, this kind of install will be "normal" since the cabinets are probably prefabbed and laid out to be the same between all sites. That way the provider doesn't have to rely on some of the "special" folks they end up with installing these for reliable and quality installs.

[Irving]

Doesn't the city have to send a letter to the home owner explaining what they are doing? They had to do that in my neighborhood before they put speed bumps in front of people's houses.

[Grant H.]

With an existing easement, and something that will take less than a day to install without impeding traffic/access? I doubt it.