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Citizen complaint of the day: Wires and leaves, oh my
By adamg on Thu, 06/06/2019 - 11:25am
A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about this fast-growing mass of wires and tree branches above Longfellow Street in Dorchester:
Help !!! Who should I call .... very dangerous
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good luck
Verizon is famous for not maintaining its poles and wires.
https://www.milforddailynews.com/x1107264809/Bellingham-residents-offici...
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/verizon-grudgingl...
Not too mention
If multiple providers and/or utilities lines are all ensnared together, good luck getting anyone to say it's their responsibility to clean it up.
It's always the other companies fault until something bad happens and then the city is on the hook for the service and repair of private business infrastructure.
Yup
Ask the city of revere how their double poles are doing.. ones done from a botched FioS installation in 2009. 10 years later they exist.
Verizon does not care about its wireline network, including poles.
While true, the worst
While true, the worst offender in the picture probably isnt Verizon but a cable company.
Verizon traditionally takes the lowest section of the comms space, which is relatively clean here. I think i can make out coaxial cable taps too.
It *might* be fios related, but I think its far more likely to be comcast wire.
I'm going to go ahead and say
I'm going to go ahead and say it's the tree's fault. Wooden bastard.
Wires
The mess of wires below the transformer (big round thing) are low voltage copper and fiber telecommunications (phone, internet, cable TV) wires. Should one get disconnected and fall it wouldn't pose an electrical risk to anyone. They won't start a fire should they get shorted.
The upper wires are high voltage and a real danger if they fall or short. They're probably OK but the vine growing up the pole is bad news. Neversource would deal with those.
Who should I call
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Look at the base of the pole. There should be some sort of nailed-on or stapled-on tag that will have a pole number and who owns it - which utility or public entity.