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Hi, this is George with Argo electrical and I am the surge protector guy. So, this is podcast number 22. This is a deeper dive or further explanation of the Shoreline Management requirements by the Corps of Engineers at like Sidney Lanier. Like Lanier’s starts around Dawsonville flows all the way down to coming, Buford and a huge part of it is in the Gainesville, area Forsyth and Hall County, especially mostly for side haul and Dawson County, are they the counties that are affected? So anyway, our last podcast we talked, we just read through the Exhibit C document that they provide you at the time of inspection. If you have one of these docks on your property that adjoins the lake, you’ll have to have this dock inspection done by a licensed electrician every five years, it doesn’t mean that you can’t do the work you just need to find someone like me that has a license that can sign off on them. Now let’s talk about the underground wiring. I think it’s a little screwy the way they’ve got it laid out. It says installation from property line and shoreline service pole says must be under underground follow access path, no overhead wiring. Only tops you f and USB cable may be used. And of course if you put your wire in conduit, this would not be applicable. So insulation requirements cables, or conduit and it doesn’t include conduit need to be at least 24 inches deep. If you were in conduit and National Electrical Code says 18 inches 24 inches is only six inches vapor and keep anybody out of it. Okay, and Lancey talks about the warning tape must be buried around 12 inches deep, so that you can buy a big roll of this yellow warning tape. And it actually has warning printed on it about 5000 times for the 1000 foot row. But um, you can, you know, start that off at the beginning of your ditch, as you’re filling back in, put the wire and put 812 inches worth of guard on top of the wire, I would pack it down just a little bit. And then you can lay your type right in on top of it and then come back and drag the rest of the the dart back into your ditch. Okay, service Paul says can’t be below elevation 1073 MSL I’m sure that’s close to sea level, you know, in this area. I know we’re never gonna have to see your eyes that far. But anyway, they won’t it. Generally if you go if you go on like linear, and you see people that have dogs. The Gangplank is going to be down on a lower level and then you come up for five feet. And you’ll see you know, it was what they call the shoreline. All right, and the water might be 1520 foot from that shoreline, just depending on how full the lake is, but I won’t it up on that hill to where you know, the legs gonna have to come up 2530 foot for it to get to the access point of the power at your service pole. Okay, and they won’t nothing any larger than a six inch pole. We generally get a four by four treated piece of lumber square treated piece of lumber, says eight foot maximum above the ground, you can buy the eight foot or and make this guy about six foot high. We’d like to buy the 10 foot or and we can put two or three foot in the ground we can put you a what we call a yard blast or light, which is you know now is an LED light with a photo sale, you can just leave the switch on and then we get start the light have come home. Very nice. They have a 20 year warranty. It’s about $150 for that light. And of course the last time they got listed is they want you to use a wooden post. I don’t want any metal down there. Like Lanier sits on the largest piece of granite in the Western Hemisphere. Okay, and up and down that lake all the time when these lightning storms run through, you know from the spring all the way through the fall. It’s retracted their water it’s granted both of them, you know, transfer their conductive so they you know had the potential to transfer electricity. All right At your Shoreline panel box says it must be at eye level, you know a good, a good height is around 60 to 65 inches. You can’t go wrong with that. Course it always depends on who your ranger is. They’re the ones the Corps’ Rangers are the ones that will let you know if you have something that doesn’t meet their standard, okay? It says the cable leading from the ground must be enclosed in a conduit and hardwired. So what that means is the cable coming up out of the dirt can’t be just flopping on the pole, you got to put it in a conduit. A good rule of thumb is a one inch to an inch and a half size conduit just makes it a lot easier to pull that wire up. You know when we do them on the side of houses or whatever the power company requires us to put a nanny. One thing about putting that elbow on the bottom of your PVC conduit going into the dirt, it’s a lot less chance that your wires going to get pinched. If it gets pinched over time eventually, that’s probably the place that’s gonna burn out. Make it easy enough for repair but your wires gonna be short. Okay, so service from the shoreline panel box to the boat dock. The cable from the panel box must be hardwired into ground fault circuitry. So what you own is you want to tie your circuit coming out of your sub panel on your four by four post into a 20 amp ground fault circuit interrupter breaker. That’s a GFCI. Breaker. Okay, you need 20 amps
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Hi, this is George with Argo electrical and I am the surge protector guy. So, this is podcast number 22. This is a deeper dive or further explanation of the Shoreline Management requirements by the Corps of Engineers at like Sidney Lanier. Like Lanier’s starts around Dawsonville flows all the way down to coming, Buford and a huge part of it is in the Gainesville, area Forsyth and Hall County, especially mostly for side haul and Dawson County, are they the counties that are affected? So anyway, our last podcast we talked, we just read through the Exhibit C document that they provide you at the time of inspection. If you have one of these docks on your property that adjoins the lake, you’ll have to have this dock inspection done by a licensed electrician every five years, it doesn’t mean that you can’t do the work you just need to find someone like me that has a license that can sign off on them. Now let’s talk about the underground wiring. I think it’s a little screwy the way they’ve got it laid out. It says installation from property line and shoreline service pole says must be under underground follow access path, no overhead wiring. Only tops you f and USB cable may be used. And of course if you put your wire in conduit, this would not be applicable. So insulation requirements cables, or conduit and it doesn’t include conduit need to be at least 24 inches deep. If you were in conduit and National Electrical Code says 18 inches 24 inches is only six inches vapor and keep anybody out of it. Okay, and Lancey talks about the warning tape must be buried around 12 inches deep, so that you can buy a big roll of this yellow warning tape. And it actually has warning printed on it about 5000 times for the 1000 foot row. But um, you can, you know, start that off at the beginning of your ditch, as you’re filling back in, put the wire and put 812 inches worth of guard on top of the wire, I would pack it down just a little bit. And then you can lay your type right in on top of it and then come back and drag the rest of the the dart back into your ditch. Okay, service Paul says can’t be below elevation 1073 MSL I’m sure that’s close to sea level, you know, in this area. I know we’re never gonna have to see your eyes that far. But anyway, they won’t it. Generally if you go if you go on like linear, and you see people that have dogs. The Gangplank is going to be down on a lower level and then you come up for five feet. And you’ll see you know, it was what they call the shoreline. All right, and the water might be 1520 foot from that shoreline, just depending on how full the lake is, but I won’t it up on that hill to where you know, the legs gonna have to come up 2530 foot for it to get to the access point of the power at your service pole. Okay, and they won’t nothing any larger than a six inch pole. We generally get a four by four treated piece of lumber square treated piece of lumber, says eight foot maximum above the ground, you can buy the eight foot or and make this guy about six foot high. We’d like to buy the 10 foot or and we can put two or three foot in the ground we can put you a what we call a yard blast or light, which is you know now is an LED light with a photo sale, you can just leave the switch on and then we get start the light have come home. Very nice. They have a 20 year warranty. It’s about $150 for that light. And of course the last time they got listed is they want you to use a wooden post. I don’t want any metal down there. Like Lanier sits on the largest piece of granite in the Western Hemisphere. Okay, and up and down that lake all the time when these lightning storms run through, you know from the spring all the way through the fall. It’s retracted their water it’s granted both of them, you know, transfer their conductive so they you know had the potential to transfer electricity. All right At your Shoreline panel box says it must be at eye level, you know a good, a good height is around 60 to 65 inches. You can’t go wrong with that. Course it always depends on who your ranger is. They’re the ones the Corps’ Rangers are the ones that will let you know if you have something that doesn’t meet their standard, okay? It says the cable leading from the ground must be enclosed in a conduit and hardwired. So what that means is the cable coming up out of the dirt can’t be just flopping on the pole, you got to put it in a conduit. A good rule of thumb is a one inch to an inch and a half size conduit just makes it a lot easier to pull that wire up. You know when we do them on the side of houses or whatever the power company requires us to put a nanny. One thing about putting that elbow on the bottom of your PVC conduit going into the dirt, it’s a lot less chance that your wires going to get pinched. If it gets pinched over time eventually, that’s probably the place that’s gonna burn out. Make it easy enough for repair but your wires gonna be short. Okay, so service from the shoreline panel box to the boat dock. The cable from the panel box must be hardwired into ground fault circuitry. So what you own is you want to tie your circuit coming out of your sub panel on your four by four post into a 20 amp ground fault circuit interrupter breaker. That’s a GFCI. Breaker. Okay, you need 20 amps
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