In article , "toller" wrote:
Okay, a wire to a water pipe does not count as a ground unless it is within
the first 5 feet.
What does that have to do with the inspector's requirement that the pipe be
connected to a ground within the first 6 feet.

Article 90-4, paragraph 2: "The authority having jurisdiction may waive
specific requirements in this Code or permit alternate methods where it is
assured that equivalent objectives can be achieved..." It appears that the
local inspection authority has decided that six feet is good enough.

It's also possible that an older version of the NEC said "six feet", not five,
and this jurisdiction adoped that version and hasn't updated since.

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Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

Nobody ever left footprints in the sands of time by sitting on his butt.
And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?