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Metering

Overhead/Underground Line

The point of interconnection is usually after the meter socket for single-phase services. 

Cooperative's Responsibility

Member's Responsibility

  • Line outages (caused by lightning, storms, ice, trees, wind, broken wires, broken poles, broken insulators, animals, faulty primary underground). 

  • Primary fuses on transformers or line tops. 

  • Failed transformers.

  • Substation outages. 

  • Tripped breaker or blown fuses below the meter or in any building.

  • Bad connection on entrance to buildings or house.

  • Wrapped or broken wires on the member-owner's side of the meter pole.

  • Tree or tree branches in wires on member-owner's side of the meter pol. 

Note: Iowa law requires that you call IOWA ONE CALL forty-eight hours prior to excavating. Any time you plan to excavate, whether it is a small or large construction project, call 811 or 1-800-292-8989. 
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