dgc@math.ucla.edu (David G. Cantor) (10/24/90)
I live on a private road. My property extends to the middle of the street. The main "virtue" of this is that I am responsible for maintenance of the road. All of the utilities have easements. Most of these easements are in an "easement strip", 10 feet wide, between my home and the curb. These include gas, water, telephone, cable TV, and electricity. Right now, LA County is installing a new drainage system and they (their contractor) had all of the utilities identify where their cables, pipes, etc., were. It didn't matter. The contractor has broken TV cables, telephone cables, water pipes, and electrical cable (fortunately, not gas). And everyone blames the other party. The contractor claims that the utilities gave him the wrong locations and the utilities blame the contractor. None of these utilities ever do an adequate patching job after digging up the road and the main reason we are going to have to repave is because of these bad patches. David G. Cantor Department of Mathematics University of California at Los Angeles Internet: dgc@math.ucla.edu