I need a power easement

[JPRambo]

I have a property in northern Georgia that I need to have the local utility company get power to .Right now I only visit it with a camper for a week at a time.
I met with the local guy and he says it is my job to get permission to run across my neighbors property. Has any one here had to do this ? I live 650 miles away from this property and I don't know where to start. How do I start? What is the procedure to do this? Is there a form the I can download for property owner to agree for me to do this?

 

[tow653]

My power company provided the form,just had to get other party to have it signed and notarized.

 

[RoyJackson]

I do suggest you visit the neighbor rather then just mail him or her the form.Depending on how the neighbor uses the property and the dimensions of the easement, you might want to offer some money.
I can tell you now...if someone mailed me such a form, it would go directly into the trash...

 

[BeezFun]

I assume you mistakenly put this in the tractor forum instead of some other forum. Anyway this sounds backwards, I think the electric company is responsible for getting power to your property and then they use the easement on your property to get it to your house. Talk to a lawyer from that area.

 

[300UGUY]

Around here, that easement will cost you a bunch of money. Or simply be unobtainable. Your neighbor has no legal obligation to give you a easement. And he might have a bunch of reasons not too.

 

[300UGUY]

Around here, that easement will cost you a bunch of money. Or simply be unobtainable. Your neighbor has no legal obligation to give you a easement. And he might have a bunch of reasons not too.

You seem to need permission from 2 landowners, I'd look over your deed very carefully, to see if access is included anywhere.

 

[TnAndy]

Well surely the guy below you (043-073) has power.....why wouldn't you simply come along the driveway off the line that feeds his house ?

Or consider solar......given the cost of an easement and running the line, you might be better off to say "no thanks"

At the time the power company ran mine up to my place (80's), all I had to do was agree to buy power for 3 years. TODAY, it would cost 30 grand for them to do it. Given the cost of solar has fallen considerably, TODAY, I'd say 'no thanks'.

 

[Rustyiron]

I take it the land is "landlocked". What is the status of your access? (by foot, driveway with deed?)
In my rural location I have access (written into the deed) across adjoining property. It's about 400' until I hit my property line. The power Co. had the forms necessary, I just chose not to tell them about it. Right or wrong, it's a "deeded" access without mention of not allowing electric or other utilities, (in the deed) so why complicate things. Twenty thousand dollar plus electric service, that's 9 poles, and that's using a contractor that was half the price that the elec. co. wanted to charge!

 

[aczlan]

Well surely the guy below you (043-073) has power.....why wouldn't you simply come along the driveway off the line that feeds his house ?

Beat me to it. Peering around on Google Maps, it looks like everyone has underground power, so it should be doable...

Aaron Z

 

[s219]

Looks like you have a driveway with easement through other properties. I'd just trench in the power along that existing easement. You will have to give the power company permission to use that.

Around here, land that was developed with access easements usually also has a utility easement drawn into the plat. It should run parallel to the driveway. If it's a shared driveway or private road, the everyone's easement will run down along the roadway and then "peel off" onto each lot. If you're at the end of the line, you have the longest easement.

Also check to see where the nearest transformer is servicing your neighbor's house on the same driveway easement. That shows how far the power company has run high voltage lines. Should be able to tie into them, run down your driveway easement, and then put up another transformer for you.

 

[JPRambo]

Yes, I have a driveway across the neighbors lot (deeded access) and I could get access that way. The picture in the original post is before the drive was finished around the loop. I was hoping not to have to tear up the new gravel driveway to trench a line in. This neighbor has said it is doable if trenched not overhead. This maybe the best option.
I was hoping there is a form I could take with me to get a signature of approval from him. I would not just send the form as I know if I received this in the mail I would put it in the circular file also. The distance for each run is about the same 500 feet. And the cost is $7.25 a foot for direct burial, installed. I tried to get a form that would suit for the county to record this but, no luck yet.

 

[Depmandog]

Not sure who your "local" utility is, but 2 minutes of google searching on my phone:

http://www.georgiapower.com/in-your-community/trees-and-power-lines/right-of-way-forms.cshtml

Contact your utility. They have the forms, the staff and expertise to answer your questions. I am pretty confident in saying they deal with this type of situation all of the time.

 

[s219]

We had to bring power down a 650' driveway and put in a transformer (about 60 feet from house) in early 2013. All my own land. I recall we paid $2500 or so. The engineer at the power company sent me all the required forms by e-mail and answered all my questions. We ended up having to grant the power company an easement along the driveway, and get that form notarized.

Their contractor used a small trackhoe to dig a trench along the side of the driveway, and didn't really disrupt the gravel much at all (though at that time, it was still a construction driveway and not perfect).

 

[JRobyn]

I had to do this in TN. The local EMC sent out a crew to help determine the best route to get power to my homesite. Great guys and very helpful. I would have liked underground, but cost was prohibitive due to extensive rock and that code required a concrete vault every-so-many feet, each of which would have required blasting, plus the vault cost. What remained were two options: an aerial line along the existing shared-access easement/road with the adjacent property (about 3000 ft), or an aerial line coming from another adjacent property (about 1000 ft). The EMC would run up to about 1000 ft at no cost to me except for any clearing, and I had to provide them with easements for whatever property was involved. The long route involved only my property, the shorter one would need an easement for both my property plus one for about 250 ft across a neighbor (undeveloped land). I assumed the neighbor would take advantage of my need and ask a high price to grant a permanent aerial powerline easement. So I offered to buy his 11 acres. It worked! I figured I only spent maybe 3-4 times what I would have had to pay him for an easement, plus I permanently avoided him putting a trailer park on the property adjacent to me! I seriously considered doing the clearing myself, but the EMC agreed to do it for only about $1500, so I dodged that bullet too.

Good luck with however yours works out. Unfortunately, I have some experience with Ga Power too, and they are not quite as cooperative and helpful as the EMC here in TN.

- Jay

 

[phiferpharm]

Just finished having underground line put in and a ground level transformer. Price was $482.00 to the power company for a run of over 400 feet. The biggest PIA was getting the Right of Way witnessed and notarized. It did leave about a 6' wide mess the entire length, but will save a lot of problems being underground

 

[JRL305]

When we built our place up on the ridge in SE TN, our driveway was 1500'. Our power company (VEC) gave us over 800' for free. Our excavator dug a trench and laid pvc and the phone line and fibreglass juction boxes every 400' or so. The transformer is up next to the house and everything is buried. It would have been impossible to to put poles in up the ridge and through the woods. They wanted a 20' easement to put poles and overhead lines. Buried next to or under the driveway is the best and most secure way IMO.

 

[Gator6x4]

I have a property in northern Georgia that I need to have the local utility company get power to .Right now I only visit it with a camper for a week at a time.
I met with the local guy and he says it is my job to get permission to run across my neighbors property. Has any one here had to do this ? I live 650 miles away from this property and I don't know where to start. How do I start? What is the procedure to do this? Is there a form the I can download for property owner to agree for me to do this?

Where does the neighbor that you drive by to get to your property get his power? Could you not extend from his service pole along side your driveway until you reach the area you want a service tap set? The thumbnail looks like a GIS or Data Explorer image. Obtain the neighbors names and call them by phone to determine how receptive they would be to you obtaining an easement. If the line you have drawn on the thumbnail is your preferred line for the service line, I have questions about the two property owners you will have to cross granting one. This may be the shortest and cheapest route for you, but the other property owners would receive no gain by granting the easement.

 

[techman]

Our utility in PA charges from the point of closest service. In this case, your neighbour along the driveway seems to be about the same distance as the line you indicated. Trenching along the driveway easement would seem like the way to go.

When we built, we were looking at a couple of grand for the service, due to the length of closest service. You get 300' free, and pay after that. The local engineer assigned to my job saw that there was a "building lot" below us in the woods. He coordinated with the owner to put a service drop on that lot (free since under 300'), and he then went from the corner of that lot closest to our site. This shaved hundreds of feet off of our line, and in the end I paid for the trenching, but only $ 360 to the utility. The utility dropped a service cable in the trench to the empty lot, and a HV cable through there to our lot, with a transformer near our house.

paul

 

[emanaresi]

I just sent a check to ac electric for our underground service installation in NJ. It cost me $5500 to have a high voltage line run from the street about 600-700 feet back into the woods and have a transformer installed. I also had to have a utility easement signed and notarized. Seems like everything costs more in NJ!

 

[AStanton]

I just sent a check to ac electric for our underground service installation in NJ. It cost me $5500 to have a high voltage line run from the street about 600-700 feet back into the woods and have a transformer installed. I also had to have a utility easement signed and notarized. Seems like everything costs more in NJ!

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