On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:41:35 -0400, Jay Hanig wrote:

I live on a coastal island and have a circular pea gravel over sand
driveway. In the center of that circle are two stone lined depressions
that were part of a Japanese garden. One depression has a large rock
(300-400lbs) in it; the other a small pagoda lantern. I have decided to
have a pond with a bamboo fountain installed in one of the depressions,
about 10' X 14'. The fountain is just going to be a piece of bamboo
that drains out of a river rock backwall... should look both natural and
in keeping with the Japanese theme.

The guy from the nursery who's going to install the water feature for me
tells me I need to provide 110V service out the just a receptacle in
some sort of enclosure. So I'm going to need to run some wire from the
house across the driveway to the central area of the driveway.

So my questions are these:

1) What kind of wire and what kind of conduit should I use? This
feature is going to get its own circuit breaker so I can isolate any
problems on down the road.

2) How deep do I need to bury the conduit?

3) Nobody has said a word about a permit. Do I need one?


One further complication is there is an irrigation line running from the
house to that same area for the automatic sprinklers. How deep are they
typically buried and how do I avoid cutting them when I dig? I have no
idea where the irrigation line is but I suspect it's going to come
across from the other side (at least that's the way I would have done
it).



Jay

Have you asked the local government where to find the regulations? Surely
they would be able to tell you where to get the specifics.