HomeMy WebLinkAbout2002-UTIL-rpt.pdf Lexington Electric Utility Ad-hoc Committee:
Summary of Double-poles Meetings
March 14 2002: initial meeting; no progress as only Verizon had been invited, on the
wrong assumption that as "owner" of poles in Lexington, Verizon can manage the double poles
issue
March 22. 2002. initial meeting with all actors; agreement that NStar's database will be
the focal point for managing who must transfer wires next at each double pole
April 11 2002. new NStar database presented (includes 254 double poles in Lexington,
but with many inaccuracies when compared with the list of 226 double poles identified by the
Lexington Electric Utility Committee); Lexington Fire Department to receive real time access to
the database
June 25 2002. Robert Reid (Lexington Electric Utility Committee) surveyed all streets
and found 308 double poles in Lexington (NStar will enter them into its database);
information in NStar database about who must next transfer wires is inaccurate; since April
2001, Lexington Electric Utility Committee has seen only 26 double poles resolved
July 16, 2002. double poles surveyed by Robert Reid are in NStar database (399 records;
still has duplicates and other problems); order in which wires must be transferred on each
double pole is unknown, Verizon will conduct a field survey to determine that order
Aucust 14 2002: NStar database has 441 double poles with the order in which wires
must be transferred (following Verizon field survey), but still many duplicates and other
problems; Verizon to announce at next meeting how many double poles were resolved in past
month
September 17 2002. NStar database has 397 double poles (including 30 new ones to be
entered in database); Verizon could not report how many double poles were resolved in past
month; issue is no longer the database, but availability of crews