[Shop-talk] Repair underground conduit

[David C.]

At 09:41 AM  2/25/2008, Doug Braun wrote:
>I have seen conduits that carry
>telco or power company lines under a street from one
>pole to another, with floodwater pouring in one end
>and pouring out the other.

That's the way mine is.  I have underground feed from the power pole 
in the street.  My driveway is about 900 feet long, and as long as we 
have been here there has always been a steady flow of water out of 
the transformer area in the winter.  I finally put in a yard drain to 
drain it away from the transformer and yard.  One of these days I 
expect an explosion somewhere along the driveway... or the 
transformer.  fortunately everything upstream of the transformer 
belongs to the utility.

Dave C