This is actually in my service area. There is an on-going water construction project along Interstate 8 by the Kiewit Corporation, and other entities, which are working on the All American Canal Lining Project.
http://www.iid.com/Water/AllAmericanCanalLiningProject http://www.kiewit.com/projects/water-resources/all-american-canal.aspx I drive by that area often and it is always very busy with workers and large machinery. -- Blake Covarrubias On Feb 2, 2010, at 6:02 PM, Michael J McCafferty wrote: > > I believe in this case the ticket mentions it was at the site of an > "on-going water project". Contrary to what may seem logical to those not > familiar with the area, the area out that way is loaded with very > productive farm land and there are lots of aqueducts and irrigation. > > Mike > > On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 19:41 -0500, Scott Berkman wrote: >> Cross-country Fibers very often follow existing utility rights of way. So >> even in a wide open desert, the places the fibers go are the "busy" spots. >> Sometimes its train tracks, sometimes its gas pipelines, sometimes its >> electric, sometimes it’s a road, but very rarely is fiber like that "on its >> own". >> >> So the cut was likely construction on whatever the fiber was near. The >> other option is that the fiber provider was actually doing maintenance >> (adding capacity, fixing a troubled strand) and did the damage themselves. >> >> -Scott >> > > -- > ************************************************************ > Michael J. McCafferty > Principal > M5 Hosting > http://www.m5hosting.com > > You can have your own custom Dedicated Server up and running today ! > RedHat Enterprise, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and more > ************************************************************ > >
