County Competence?

Often I'm amazed at how much trouble the county goes to, to be helpful. Dad called the utilities to tell them we needed to have our electric and water lines marked before we sight a new shed and set up the rest of the irrigation system. They informed us that we must call the 800 number.

We hear the advertisements that say call before you dig. We did.

We have good records of where we put the stuff into the house when we built it. What we need to know is where those two lines go out to where the mobile home used to sit.

Dad explained several times to the nice woman that we only needed the water and electric and that we needed it behind the house. All utilities are included in the service she said and they are automatically notified. We were told to leave the gate open for them--so we did.

We drove into the yard just in time to see the phone guy marking the line up to our house phone. The water, electric and cable lines had been marked at the street, and boxes in front of the house and up to the house. Nothing beyond.

top - water meter in front now painted so you can see it better.
left- inside fence along driveway
right- phone and electric (also cable we don't use).