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Resident reports unsafe fiber installation


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Willard resident Sharon Newland told the city council during public comment Thursday that a new fiber line was installed behind homes without a recorded easement and at a low height she considered unsafe. Newland said the line was “wrapped with a steel cable” and hung “maybe fourteen feet off the ground” along a decades old utility route that crosses property expected to develop commercially. She also described confusion over responsibility for the installation, outlining a history that began with Brigham City Telephone Company and moved through AT&T, Mountain Bell, and Lumen before returning to AT&T, which she said was routing...

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