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It’s a common sight, especially during the spring and summer growing season — crews cutting away tree limbs and foliage that have gotten too close to nearby power lines.
Though the work is often tedious, the maintenance our right-of-way crew conducts is an essential part of providing safe, affordable and reliable power to members. The ROW workers are the protectors of the power lines.
Generally, anything within a set distance on either side of the lines, as well as above and below the lines, must come down to prevent contact, especially when storms roll through. Without this maintenance, obtrusive branches and limbs often can be blown into lines, creating dangerous and costly power outages.
In addition to their work in a bucket truck trimming trees, our right-of-way crew sprays vegetation at the bottom of our poles to ensure our lineworkers and trucks can get where they need to when working on projects or restoring power during an outage.
This year, our spraying crew will be focusing its efforts on the southern one-third of our area, which covers our entire service territory south of Baseline Road from Wilmot to Garrett.
The spraying application uses non-restricted chemicals that are scientifically designed to work on plants, not people or animals.
If you would like to maintain the right-of-way that crosses your property in some other way, “Do Not Spray” signs are available at the Noble REMC office, but you must make sure the signs are visible and legible from the roadway and notify us of your location.
We appreciate your understanding as the Noble REMC right-of-way crew works hard each day to keep trees, limbs and vegetation clear from all sides and underneath more than 845 miles of overhead energized line in our service territory.
Our primary concern is to maintain public safety and the safety of our employees, as well as to keep power flowing reliably across our distribution lines to you and the nearly 10,000 other members we serve.
