This is an existing 2 family complex, the main house built almost 100 years ago with a rental house added in the sixties. The utility is overhead in the alley. Currently the main house is fed overhead with quite a long overhead drop to a recent 100A service with a GES in place. The rental house is fed underground from the main house with 60Amps.
The new buyer wants to relocate the service to the rental house to eliminate the unsightly overhead drop stretching across the property. This will put the service very close to the utility for a mid span hookup.
The new buyer also wants to go to seperate meters. The service equipment on the main house could be used with a meter blank off and fed underground from the rental. This would provide the disco, the GES and the tenant access.
The reason it would not be feasable to run a service lateral to the main house underground is because the property lies between poles and has a mid span tap. To go underground from the utility would require trenching the easement to the next pole. The owner wants to utilize a trench already being dug between the two units for sewage.
The utility will connect the drop to one rigid riser, then run a tap to a second riser which can be emt since it won't have to support the drop. They want the risers within 24 inches of each other.
If I use one riser into a gutter, the gutter will have to have provisions for a utility seal.
[This message has been edited by BigB (edited 12-04-2004).]
