From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Penrose
Sent: Wednesday, 22 March 2006 3:25 PM
To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] SWER

...Just got the replies by Scott and Derek, sorry, SWER wires are private? Huh?

Once you hit the first pole on your own property, the wire and poles to your house are yours.
You are required to maintain them.
 
Only in rare instances is there private ownership of poles and wires in SA (and other states are similar I believe since all the state governments tended to plagiarise off each other when they wrote their respective legislations).

Of course you still need an authorised electrician to do it - just like you do wiring in your own house.

For this reason, companies will only keep the data to that first pole, as they could move on your house - and it is not their responsibility - just like they don't keep any data to what power points you have in your house.

Of course there are SWER lines that are not private, but not many, most use 3 wire systems (same principle, but all 3 phases and easier to see). 
 
There are _no_ private SWER lines in SA. The utility owns the SWER line up to the transformer pole at the house, the transformer, the LV feed into the house and the meter.
(There are tens of thousands of kilometres of SWER in SA)
 
\Any electricity Supplier will still have this information in spatial format, which is interrigatable by us, most local councils have some kind of cartographic and planning division also... 

I don't think so. I will ask our local councillor (my dad is one) and chat to them, but it is not normal for them to keep private stuff.

Regards
SWK
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