A pipeline is a hell of a lot more disruptive than a plow or drill. Around here they can plant over any ROW that's not road and the utility reimburses for crop damage. ROW would probably be a lot more expensive if it didn't cover crop damage.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Hogg" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2015 7:21:11 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] ROW They are allowed under the assumption that it could be destroyed. Pipelines typically do not use State/County ROW. They don't ever want to have to move them. They paid $8/ft for a pipeline going in here for easement access on a project next to our fiber build. Homeowners are pissed they can't get money from us because we are using the State ROW. Regards, Chuck On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 8:14 PM, Matt < [email protected] > wrote: > We're marking pole locations and some of them are in agricultural areas. I > will feel like a vandal when I whack down some corn to make a spot for my > stake. Aside from my feelings, am I going to run into any other problems? > Can the farmer come after me for the $10 worth of crop I killed? What about > lost revenue from the space in his field that becomes unusable because of > the pole? Are they actually supposed to be planting that close to the road in the ROW? > I also had a homeowner complain about a pole we were marking because it > would ruin his view. He was nice about it, and it so happened that moving > the spot to the corner of the property didn't hurt us any, so we > accommodated him....if I chose to stick to my first spot, he has no recourse > as long as I'm still in the ROW, right? My only liability for being a jerk > about it would be that I have to feel like a jerk, right?
