Ground rods can be connected at any point in the grounding system?

Just had inspector inform me of this after seeing a very long run in a crawlspace. I went from the ground rods to the panel. He said I could of just ran a much shorter run to any metal cold water pipe or split bolt onto the main bond jumper.

Never heard this and could not find in the code book.

Any truth to this?

Last edited by Trick440; 02/15/12 04:03 PM.

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