Some time ago another customer called me complaining that electricity was coming through her kitchen window and shocking her. After a consider amont of sleuthing I discovered hat there was 56 volts between the stainless sink and the sink faucet. The culprit was ivy. Ivy had grown up the power pole and was a fraction of an inch from the 14,700 volt primary. The water service pipe was picking up the voltage from the ivy roots and giving the customer a little excitement in her life. Even though the interior piping systems were grounded properly, the problem didn't go away until the utility cut back the ivy on the pole.
