— Rocky Semmes, AlexandriaThere are approximately 150 million utility poles in service in North America. ADADBut that journey would take you through the territories of more than 3,400 different utility companies, each likely to employ its own notation system for its own utility poles. A utility pole can last for decades. ADIn 2009, the Federal Communications Commission proposed establishing a national utility pole database. “The [identification] tags in my utility were little round numbers nailed into the pole,” Webers said.

Source: Washington Post September 26, 2020 20:37 UTC