It can be sloping away from the meter and still have that problem if it’s all in conduit all the way to the top of the pole…
That's the case. Base of pole from POCO is about 5ft elevation above meter at house. Using the KO point opened a crack in the concentric ring to allow water to escape. Looking for a better more perminant solution to keep water from getting up to the meter. Thinking tieing into a new french drain system when it is installed by making gravel pit at conduit where it turns up the wall and provide weep holes in conduit. The french drain will go down across property to the drainage ditch about 10ft below basement grade.
We have started using these for the last 2-3 years. They are fantastic for that purpose and also to stop the pipe from pulling down on the Meterbase and pulling it off the side of the house for installations that are all in conduit.
I have almost universally used expansion couplings for underground. I usually use the slip riser type or make my own out of 2.5" PVC. As stated, those are nice because they let water out.
I have heard of people taking the o rings out of the coupling type.
Just have your supplier get them
Occasionally we will put something like this at the base of the pole to cover where we leave the 2” or 3” pvc with a 1” gap between them for drainage.
Utilities use weather heads??Why so much water? if improper or no weatherhead on the utility end I can see it allowing somewhat large amount of water in , otherwise it should be condensation water, though that can accumulate over time but it won't be that much in just one warm-cool cycle.
You are doing too good of a job gluing PVC raceways if it holds water well, electrical PVC pipe isn't made to seal as well as plumbing PVC pipe is.
I advocate gluing carefully in some situations, like where the run is downhill into a basement, because if you have a high water table and an imperfect joint in the pipe you will have a continuous stream of water coming through into the basement. Been there. I think electrical PVC glues and seals. just fine, it's just we often aren't real careful because often we don't have to beWhy so much water? if improper or no weatherhead on the utility end I can see it allowing somewhat large amount of water in , otherwise it should be condensation water, though that can accumulate over time but it won't be that much in just one warm-cool cycle.
You are doing too good of a job gluing PVC raceways if it holds water well, electrical PVC pipe isn't made to seal as well as plumbing PVC pipe is.
It often does seal pretty well, some bell ends will fit a little loose at times though.
Most high water table locations around here you do not want to have a basement, or if you do you better at least have a really good drainage/pumping system to keep water away from the walls.
