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C-H,
Just a small question.
Why go Overhead?, if you don't have to.
stringing wires through conduit shouldn't take that much and I'm sure that you would have more than enough help to dig the trenches.
Just a thought, but you could have fused tap-off points at each house.
With next to no loading on the wires, you wouldn't even have to de-rate the conductors.