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Originally Posted by juanbenae
actually underground of utilities in rural areas would be less complicated than in suburban areas. there's already a ton of underground infrastructure in densely populated areas that would have to be worked around and many agencies have spotty records at best so design of routing is a crap shoot. digging up yards to take what was a line drop residence to an underground system gets complicated. you have all the landscaping, stamped concrete driveways, fences, to traverse not to mention the paving and sidewalk trench restoration. frankly it really not practical coming from a public agency's engineering/public work division.
not saying rural area would be easy, just less complicated and fewer customers to please with restoration of their property. frankly rural area undergrounding would have greater upside in regards to value, ie, fire prevention.
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Thanks for the education on that. Makes total sense.