Category: Utility Work

Oncor’s subcontractors were on the East side (East MC Court area) for a little over a week and appear to have completed the work they were doing.

As a result, there are piles of dirt near the transformers and other areas they excavated and a lot of the grass isn’t there now.

They will be sending out another crew to take care of this over the next few weeks or so. They have replanted the grass on previous visits here and returned things to as they found them.

We will have a work crew on East Mountain Creek Court tomorrow, as evidenced by the equipment they staged this evening (right). The machine to the right is a Ditch Witch type machine, so they can insert conduits (electrical piping) between the transformers along the East MC Court area and connect to East MC Drive. They will be all over the area and it will be somewhat loud.

The object of installing underground conduit is to make the cable changes between transformers much easier than having to trench them all up as they have done previously.

We have Oncor and their subcontractors doing work on property on both sides. There is a crew on East Mountain Creek Court running some new cables between the transformers. There is also a temporary wire running across West Townhouse Lane. The operative word is “temporary”. This wire will be buried soon enough.

We have had a few calls to the Office about this wire and we cannot stop any utility company from repairing or upgrading their equipment that is on our property. These buried power cables are over 45 years old in most cases and they are failing. All of our 416 units would like to have continuous electricity so we have to endure some temporary cables on occasion.

I would imagine that Oncor and their subcontractors will be on property updating things for some period of time.