mm wrote:
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:25:59 -0400, Paul Franklin
wrote:


Regardless of your choice, call the toll free "Before you dig" number
to get any buried utility lines marked. There is no charge. Utilities
get really bent out of shape when you cut one of their lines or pipes.
They are supposed to be deeper, but %$&#* happens.

I talked to a guy who contracts for Miss Utility, as they call it in
maryland. And his job is to mark utility lines. (Here, probably
everywhere, they use different colors for differnt thigns.)

And he said that if you cut a line or pipe, they charge thousands to
put it back together. He said even if it only takes a ;little time to
splice in a short piece of wire at each end of it, they charge over a
thousand.

charging a lot discourages idiots, the word gets around and people are
more careful.

Close by Verizon replacing a pole accidently cut a 20,000 pair cable
phones in area were out for 2 days.

wonder if they charge themselves?