Posted by tjdub on June 02, 2009 at 11:39:54 from (208.28.88.253):
In Reply to: Todays plowing posted by DiyDave on June 02, 2009 at 09:43:35:
They should be buried 4 ft deep unless the line is Customer Premise Equipment (not owned by the phone company). In that case, the owner can do whatever he wants with the line.
My phone company laid fiber-optic lines through my fields last year. They used a D6 Cat with a huge tine on the back to bury the cable. 200ft into the field they hit a rock so big they broke the tine. Glad it wasn't me.
You say it's a waterway though. Is it possible that erosion is to blame for the shallow depth? That's why you should always get lines marked before digging. Especially yards where landscaping often makes guessing the depth a crap-shoot even when the wires were buried at a standard depth at one time.
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