purevoltage
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- olympia, washington
Hello All
I work for the state of Washington on the capital campus. we have a above ground parking garage and the building that fed the service to the garage has been demoed. So they had to restrike the service to the garage. They put in a overhead mast and brought the wires into the garage to a disconnect. then feed the old service panels in the electric room of the garage. With the new service being in a new location they had to find a place to put ground rods. There is a planter attached to the garage and they put the ground rods there. This planter is about 150 feet from the service disconnect. they used emt to go from the disconnect to the old service panels about 300 feet away. between the service disconnect and the old service panels is the planter they put the ground rods in. Instead of putting the grounding electrode conductor in the conduit they strapped it to the outside of the emt for about 150 with zip ties. This is a public garage and anybody can walk in to it. If somebody wanted to they could cut that wire and take it and no more ground for the service. Seems to me they could have put a junction box were they had to jump into the planter and made it less visible. My question is : is it ok to zip tie the wire to the outside of the conduit? I have been looking in the code but I have not found anything. any help would be great.
thanks
I work for the state of Washington on the capital campus. we have a above ground parking garage and the building that fed the service to the garage has been demoed. So they had to restrike the service to the garage. They put in a overhead mast and brought the wires into the garage to a disconnect. then feed the old service panels in the electric room of the garage. With the new service being in a new location they had to find a place to put ground rods. There is a planter attached to the garage and they put the ground rods there. This planter is about 150 feet from the service disconnect. they used emt to go from the disconnect to the old service panels about 300 feet away. between the service disconnect and the old service panels is the planter they put the ground rods in. Instead of putting the grounding electrode conductor in the conduit they strapped it to the outside of the emt for about 150 with zip ties. This is a public garage and anybody can walk in to it. If somebody wanted to they could cut that wire and take it and no more ground for the service. Seems to me they could have put a junction box were they had to jump into the planter and made it less visible. My question is : is it ok to zip tie the wire to the outside of the conduit? I have been looking in the code but I have not found anything. any help would be great.
thanks