Post by Brent George on Mar 7, 2023 20:48:43 GMT
Landowner ordered to pay after damaging incorrectly buried cables
Stuff - Business: 8-Mar-2023
A landowner has been ordered to pay just under $1000 for accidentally cutting through buried fibre network cables.
But the cut cables were buried just 15cm under the ground surface, when national safety guidelines say they should have been buried to a depth of at least 30cm.
It doesn't take much to extrapolate that Surveyors are at a high risk of accidentally damaging buried cables when undertaking survey work.
If the cables are only 150mm below the surface of the ground when they should be 300mm+ by design or specification, then it may not seem fair to bear the cost of repair.
However, if you emplace a 500mm peg in the ground that extends to (say) a depth of 450mm; or a 500mm long Iron Rod as a buried mark down a hole 150-250mm deep, then any service down to 750mm below ground is a problem.
How many Surveyors proactively request for underground records, and/or use service location tools, or undertake a serious inspection of the location (looking for warning markers or signs) before they emplace marks?
Stuff - Business: 8-Mar-2023
A landowner has been ordered to pay just under $1000 for accidentally cutting through buried fibre network cables.
But the cut cables were buried just 15cm under the ground surface, when national safety guidelines say they should have been buried to a depth of at least 30cm.
It doesn't take much to extrapolate that Surveyors are at a high risk of accidentally damaging buried cables when undertaking survey work.
If the cables are only 150mm below the surface of the ground when they should be 300mm+ by design or specification, then it may not seem fair to bear the cost of repair.
However, if you emplace a 500mm peg in the ground that extends to (say) a depth of 450mm; or a 500mm long Iron Rod as a buried mark down a hole 150-250mm deep, then any service down to 750mm below ground is a problem.
How many Surveyors proactively request for underground records, and/or use service location tools, or undertake a serious inspection of the location (looking for warning markers or signs) before they emplace marks?