I was digging a new bed along my side fence and ran right into a wire. No damage done, thank goodness! I called 811 and they will send someone out to mark everything but I was shocked this didn't show up on my survey (house built 1978). There is an easement along the back fence but nothing shown along the side fences. Just curious, is this common?
by RrresearchIt
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Common enough occurrence that they even made a slogan, and put it on billboards. “Call *before* you dig”
Yes. It seems pretty common.
I’ve got a box like yours in the corner of my yard and wires running along the south fence going out to the street as well as wires running along the east fence going to neighbor’s houses.
Why are they all there? Time Warner/Spectrum blames AT&T, AT&T blames Google, yadda yadda.
The ATT dopes put optical fiber in my neighbors yard so shallow that her mower cut it.
I did just get an automated email from Grande saying they don’t have any wires on my property. Maybe it’s Google, I do have Google Fiber…
Given that it’s running to a “cable TV” box and that shallow that’s just likely just an old coax run to your house by a lazy ass technician. There’s 2-3 dead runs in my yard I find sometimes. Likely won’t show up on a dig survey as they don’t track them.
Spectrum has wires all over my back yard Their shit *should* be 12-18 inches down but I sincerely doubt it.
That’s called a rainbow root.
Probably a very recently-put-in internet line, since it was super shallow. AT&T especially are bad about this – in my yard they just threw the fiber down and literally shoved some dirt over it in some places with a boot, not even kidding you. So you probably have a pedestal behind your house/in the alley and it runs from there to the side of your house.
Electrical has stricter rules on depth, but internet they just do halfassed since it’s low voltage.
a lot of my spectrum stuff is only a few inches as most underground. They are responsible to get it to your house so when it gets cut they come out and replace it. At least that’s what has happened the couple times i’ve had issues
There is copper pipe right by the side walk in front of our house. Less than 3 inches below ground. If you just move the plants over you’ll see it. Insane how little digging is done for important infrastructure areas.
Last time my ISP was out I had to show them where their own cables were buried because they had no record of it. I’ve encountered several abandoned coax cables from who knows what. So much junk buried 6 inches down.
My CAT cable was only buried like 2 in down. Good thing you didn’t cut it!