Underground tap/connection box

[new_ee]

My local utility will only "hit" or provide a single connection point to a building regardless of the metering arrangement. Utility conductors from the transformer on line side and the building service conductors on load side. Usually they run to a connection/tap box and the separate metering is fed from there (outside of building). I have a situation where there is no room on the wall either inside or outside of the building for a connection/tap box. Is there such thing as an underground connection/tap box? The service is a larger 3000A 208V 3-Phase.

 

[mdshunk]

Not underground that I know of, but there is such a thing as a tap pedestal, similar to a padmount junction box.

Naturally, you can also use a sufficiently sized Quazite box with the appropriate Polaris type bugs in there.

 

[mdshunk]

It just dawned on me.... are you talking about a CT can, by chance? That's a horse of another color.

 

[new_ee]

It just dawned on me.... are you talking about a CT can, by chance? That's a horse of another color.

no this tap/connection box would be before the CT can. The service lateral from the utility company's transformer (underground feed) would come into this tap/connection box and then feed out to 1) a switchboard and 2) a CT cabinet for house loads. since the utility company wont make the two separate connections they would just connect once to the lugs in the tap/connection box.