utility pole repair

There are thousands of utility poles scattered across our communities. You probably don’t give them much thought — unless there is one that looks like it’s about to crash into your house. That’s exactly what happened after a June storm, when a utility pole teetered at a 45-degree angle in a backyard in Boston’s Mattapan neighborhood. Homeowner Julian said...

A pole belonging to Verizon was left teetering at a 45-degree angle in Boston, leaving a homeowner looking for answers.

As the first snow of the season fell across the Boston area, Lindsay Crudele invited me to her Dorchester home to observe what she described
as a “hideous tangle of bureaucracy” in her backyard. The eyesore is more commonly known as a utility pole, which had
teetered precariously amidst wires and tree branches for weeks.

A Dorchester homeowner couldn’t get anyone to fix a fractured utility pole in her backyard, ending up in an “endless” customer service loop for weeks.

The law says double power poles should be replaced within a few months, but the NBC10 Boston Investigators found some still there years later.