[cva66snipe]

I'm roughly 700 ft from the road and have three poles between me and the road which has my electric and landline on. It sounds like when they buried your service they upgraded the transformer as well this the increase in voltage.

I had an opposite issue. The utility upgraded my area with a new sub-station of which it's feeder crosses my land to the station 2 miles away. When they put in the new substation the voltage went from 120/240 to 130/260 and stuff started smoking including my pump buried in my well. They finally came out and put a transformer set for 115/230 volts on the service for my house and it stopped.

The utility also began a right of way maintenance program on their lines cutting problem trees down and keeping underbrush controlled. That made outage from from 2-4 times a year to once every two years or so.

[Elsie]

Just the cable. Xformer stayed the same.

[Elsie]

The utility also began a right of way maintenance program on their lines cutting problem trees down and keeping underbrush controlled.

I've some transmission lines that cross my land and that company cuts back away from them a certain distance.

They pay me for the trees that they have to remove.

What a deal!!

;^)

My local provider also cuts bad trees along the road, but all I get from them is, "Where do you want this wood?"