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Resident tells Westville council multiple cable companies are digging yards, seeks limits
Summary
At a Westville Town Council meeting, resident Susan Friedrich urged officials to limit repeated fiber and cable installations that she said are buried in private yards and causing damage; town attorney and staff described easement limits and permit enforcement but no ordinance change was adopted.
Susan Friedrich, a Westville resident, told the Westville Town Council she is concerned that multiple cable and fiber companies are repeatedly trenching and placing equipment in private yards within the town’s public right-of-way.
Friedrich said crews have put boxes and buried lines close to landscaping at her home, that some boxes have sunk, and that overlapping installations are creating drainage and maintenance problems. “We already have two of these cables being buried in our ground, and now we got a third company wants to roll through and do another, tear up our ground again,” Friedrich said. She asked why the…
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