On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:32:47 +0100, TheOldFellow
wrote:

While digging the garden I came across a 8mm armoured cable, about 8
inches under an old lawn with yellow plastic warning buried about an
inch over the top of it. It appears to be running towards a street
lamp.

I didn't damage it or disturb it much, and it isn't in my way.

Is a 8mm dia armoured cable - diameter across the steel armour - about
right for a small street lamp? It seems to be running from the school
next door. Should the council be paying me a rent on this bit of space?

I thought that buried cable should be at least 18 inches down.


8mm is about right - an offcut I salvaged when they replaced a nearby
street lamp a few weeks ago is that size. The cables and the poured
joint were barely a foot deep in the grass verge.


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