Electric and telephone service come to the PPR January 2007

With the big dig and drilling the well behind us, it is now time to wrap up the electric and phone line installation. Our electric service is provided by Sulpher Springs Valley Electric Co-op and I asked them about ten-thousand questions and they answered every one of them. I really enjoyed working with them. The crew came out and began assembling and dropping conduit into the trenches. They installed two switches at this time too. When the crew prepared to set the transfor-mers, we found that we did not prep the areas correctly. The electric crew had another job that had a start date coming up soon and they said we had to prep the transformer pad areas properly and they would be back after the next job was through. They were gone a little over a week and when they came back Jan and I had prepared three pristine transformer pads. Also






during this time, Qwest had their contractors come out and lay in the conduit for the telephone lines as we back filled over the electric conduit. Our neighbor Brian, who partnered with us for the electric install, brought down his tractor to fill in the trenches when everything was finished. This was a large time-consuming task, but we are sure there will be other tasks that make this one pale by comparison.