| Subject: Re: OT, but probably of interest; construction crews watch for mystery 'black' wire |
| From: "miso@sushi.com" <miso@sushi.com> |
| Date: 08/06/2009, 08:16 |
| Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.area51 |
On Jun 7, 7:36 am, obviouslydelusional <obviouslydelusio...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Before construction projects start, plans are sent to all utilities of
record, and other interested parties, and they are required to mark
the locations of their facilities before the contractor starts
digging. If the contractor then damages a marked facility, he must
repair it at his cost. But if he damages an unmarked facility, it has
to be repaired at the facility owner's cost. It's not the
contractor's responsibility. So we, as taxpayers, are paying because
the Feds aren't marking their facilities. And fiber optic lines, the
media of choice for secure data transmission, is very easy to damage
and expensive to splice back together.
Call before you dig, but who ya gonna call?
You would think the three letter agencies would inspect the plans and
send in some untraceable representative to take care of the problem. I
mean, they are going to find the cable any way, so might as well be
somewhat upfront about it.
On a totally unrelated note (well except for it being communications
related), the Obama administration is getting the federal repeater
sites operational again and dumping Nextel. I don't know if the
military was a big Nextel customer like the feds, but it will be
interesting to see if new military trunk systems start showing up.
They have been building them in the upper end of the military air
band.