WEST VALLEY CITY — When timber started shedding leaves final fall, Kevin McGeeney and Shauna Scott Bellaccomo first observed a thick black cable tied to their plum tree out within the yard.
“It is hooked up on three totally different locations up right here,” McGeeney mentioned of the tied-up utility line.
And the road is not simply, like, dangling within the branches. Any person went to the difficulty of cinching it to the tree, so it goes over a car parking zone behind their dwelling. Generally, larger vehicles in that lot snag the road whereas passing beneath.
“I am afraid it will pull the tree over and break the wall,” mentioned Bellaccomo.
Each say they’ve referred to as each utility firm they will consider of their space in making an attempt to get it eliminated. But, it stays tied to their tree they usually don’t know which utility is accountable.
“No person requested my permission to place this factor in my tree,” McGeeney mentioned.
All proper, time for just a little gum-shoe journalism. The KSL Investigators went to the opposite aspect of the McGeeney and Bellaccomo’s wall and noticed on the bottom alongside the road’s path flags for UTOPIA Fiber. So, I reached out to them.
A spokesperson responded saying these flags are marking “UTOPIA’s current underground conduit.” UTOPIA does not personal the road within the tree and after investigating, their tech is, “fairly optimistic it’s a CenturyLink line.”
So, I reached out to CenturyLink.
Its response?
Not it. “Our cable supervisor visited the house owner and confirmed that the fiber in query is just not our cable,” a spokesperson instructed us.
However McGeeney says CenturyLink instructed him it is fairly optimistic the cable in query belongs to Comcast.
The third time wound up being the attraction. We reached out to Comcast who in flip additionally despatched a tech to research the thriller line and confirmed it certainly is its line tied to Bellaccomo and McGeeney’s tree. Higher but, Comcast mentioned it might do one thing about it.
Identical to that, Comcast eliminated its line from the tree.
Comcast defined it put the road within the tree as a short lived repair after a fireplace broke out within the strip mall behind Ballccomo and McGeeney’s dwelling final summer season. Comcast says it deliberate to take away the non permanent line as soon as building to the broken business constructing was full.
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