From: w_tom


Generally, the utility is responsible for overhead electric
line up to (something like) 150 feet from the 'right of way'.
After that, the overhead wire is your property. If wire is
underground, then you may be responsible for everything up to
the pole or up to the 'right of way'. Your electric company
may have different criteria. Talk to them.

Since meter readers are becoming a obsolete job, then many
electric companies are hiring third party companies to perform
the reading. IOW meter readers may not even know anything
about electric company other than how to read a meter and
where to file the papers.

If the pole is on your property and not on a right of way then it's your
problem, not theirs.

I have 2 friends who live on "flagstaff" properties, basically the rear acre of
what used to be a 2-acre deep lot.

Our utility will feed a home directly from their pole only if that distance is
75' or less. Any further than that you have to either go underground to meet
their pole (and your entire underground service is your responsibility, even if
it must cross to the other side of the street to meet a pole) or, intall your
own pole on your own property. The utility will install it for you, for a
price, but with the proviso that you are paying only for the labor and
materials and their pole-setting prowess. After they're done the pole is your
property, your responsibility.



veteran wrote:
I noticed our power pole lacked a cable that countered the pull of the
lines. Someone had cut it. It had an insulator in the middle of the
cable , what is the insulator for?
and who responsibility is this pole, the meter reader seems to think
that since the pole is on our property and serves only us, that PG&E
will not replace the somewhat rotted pole.
any ideas , out there?