Utility poles are often placed on slopes or in areas where groundwater runs close to the surface.
If the soil is saturated from rain, snowmelt, or a rising water table, a spring can open up and release water right where the pole is standing.If there’s a buried pipe nearby city water, irrigation, old property line a leak can travel through the soil and emerge at the lowest/easiest point which is often around a utility pole.
There's no such thing as water tight. Ask any submariner, at depth a tiny pinhole will open up through sheer pressure eroding the surrounding material.
Water always wins, the Grand Canyon is what happens when a continent gets in it's way.
Primary underground transition, it seems. If there is pad mounted equipment uphill anywhere the water has a free path downhill through conduit, even if the duct is totally intact. You don't even need a pressurized water source for this to happen though this is quite a bit worse than typical
Underground cable doesn't care about water ingress. The utility might sometimes use foam to lessen the flow but it depends on local construction standards
I'm an electrician and have experienced something similar... In the case I experienced the conduit ran uphill and the junction box at the top of the hill was full of water so the pressurized water was being forced up and out the bottom conduit.
someone could be putting an air compressor on it somewhere. that pipe probably goes to a pedestal somewhere and it's often hard to know which pipe goes where.
The pipe is tapped into an natural spring or the rain is forcing it up, not sure
Utility poles are often placed on slopes or in areas where groundwater runs close to the surface. If the soil is saturated from rain, snowmelt, or a rising water table, a spring can open up and release water right where the pole is standing.If there’s a buried pipe nearby city water, irrigation, old property line a leak can travel through the soil and emerge at the lowest/easiest point which is often around a utility pole.
Hydraulic pressure always wins!
Shouldn’t the conduit be water tight?
There's no such thing as water tight. Ask any submariner, at depth a tiny pinhole will open up through sheer pressure eroding the surrounding material.
Water always wins, the Grand Canyon is what happens when a continent gets in it's way.
It's probably a ground, so I don't think it would matter.
My terrible video doesn’t show it, but It’s definitely not a ground.
Direct burial cable will be sleeved in PVC conduit above ground and that sleeve will go into the ground a couple feet.
Ahh that makes more sense! And then an aquifer found the direct burial.
Def not a ground. That’s a UG termination cable which you can see taps up into the line. That’s a high voltage shielded cable
No conduits are waterproof, and after years in the ground... In western Oegon = new shower head 🚿
Are you in Jefferson Oregon
Or just outside Jefferson
Nope
This isn't Lickskillet road?
Nope
Damn well whatever road that is looks identical and has the same thing happening.
The ground conduit is in an artesian well.
Crazy!!!
I drove down that road twice today and its crazy how identical they are and with the same issue.
It was dry today so it wasn't doing it, i should have taken a picture but it didn't dawn on me until now
post a side by side pic
Lol is this on 53 outside nehalem? 😅 Saw this yesterday
Nope but getting closer.
Primary underground transition, it seems. If there is pad mounted equipment uphill anywhere the water has a free path downhill through conduit, even if the duct is totally intact. You don't even need a pressurized water source for this to happen though this is quite a bit worse than typical
Underground cable doesn't care about water ingress. The utility might sometimes use foam to lessen the flow but it depends on local construction standards
Electrical conduits don't need to be watertight, the only thing in them in continuous insulated wires.
That’s a lot of water!
Does the water have an odd taste?
It’s a bit nutty
I'm an electrician and have experienced something similar... In the case I experienced the conduit ran uphill and the junction box at the top of the hill was full of water so the pressurized water was being forced up and out the bottom conduit.
Happens every time it rains hard for a few days
Reverse rain
Good question I don't know
someone could be putting an air compressor on it somewhere. that pipe probably goes to a pedestal somewhere and it's often hard to know which pipe goes where.
Hydraulic pressure m'boy!
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Glitch in the matrix.
Testing the integrity of the insulation.
There is a sewer blockage down pipe. This is a vent pipe and the blockage is creating back pressure with excess water being flushed up.
That’s a power line feeding a house underground.
Damn. My bad. Well yer shit's all fucked up.
To many electrons.
The conduit is taking on water at a higher elevation.