THE ONLY SOLUTION WAS TO UNDERGROUND THE WIRES, UNTIL THEY HAD TO PAY!

A family who lost their home, with no insurance, had one way to recover: developing the land. Their engineering assessment found the site did not comply. The overhead line’s clearance came in under 5 metres from the ground, below the safety code requirement.

Vector’s first quote to fix it was $249,000, to underground the wires. The developer had been asking for months whether a cheaper option existed. Once we pointed out that the line itself did not comply with the safety code, Vector offered a mid-span pole instead, the solution the developer had been asking about all along.