System Inspections
REC uses ground patrol and aerial patrol as techniques to discover potential problem areas.
Inspections often find the following types of problems:
- Pole tops weakened by woodpecker holes
- Damaged insulators (e.g. insulator broken or flashed over)
- Blown arresters
- Damaged or deteriorating conductor
- Loose or broken hardware (e.g. damaged crossarms, bolts that have loosened, broken crossarm braces)
- Dead or leaning trees that could fall and contact the line
- Debris on wires or poles (helium balloons, dove decoys, trash)
- Obstructions/encroachments within the right of way
- Any activity within the right of way that may endanger the public
- Trees that have fallen and may block urgently needed access to the lines
- Storage of items within our right of way that could potentially be blown into the lines during high winds
- Deer stands within the right of way or attached to poles