Just a slight workspace violation with the metercan on the right side wall of the alcove.... This and the creative feed going to the 2 rightmost meters would never fly here, along with either that door is really short, or that top meter is wayyy above the 6'6" rule we have here..
BTW, while its brought up, why is the gas meter 8' in the air???
Isn't there supposed to be a master disconnect if there's more than 6 meters? ANd shouldn't there be, if it was only 6 meters, disconnects for each service? I'm assuming that the power source is coming in from below.
My first reaction was the proximity of the gas meter as well. I find it hard to believe that the building inspector and/or fire marshall is allowing this to remain as is. Can you say "Building Codes?" Great picture!
I'm most surprised by the position of the gas meter. If this is a standard door, I'd guess the meter to be some 6' above ground, and no gas company I know of would allow that! The meter reader needs a ladder in that case...
It looks like there a distribution manifold of two rows of gas meters installed for this building to the left of the service entrance.
There is a locked off meter shutoff valve to the left of the one we see and just in the top left of the picture you can see the bottom corner of another gas meter.
Yup... that's more gas meters! What gas company on earth allows (or even put) meters in front of a window??? With meters you should think the utility was involved in some way!
What you don't see is the sloped roadway. The first gas meter is only 55 inches obove the surface. The main electrical disconnect and sub-disconnects are mounted in the verical concrete vault.