Waterline/Where to land grounding electrode conductor

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JMahaney

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If I have a 200 amp service with the outdoor disconnect being the first point of disconnection, and a four wire cable feeding the indoor panel.
Indoor panel is not bonded with all grounds and neutral separate.
Does the water line ground have to go all the way outside to the first point of disconnect? Or can it be landed on the ground bar with the grounding conductors?
 

infinity

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The outdoor disconnect is the service disconnect therefore the GEC must terminate there or at a point upstream from the service disconnect.
 

LarryFine

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To add a technical note: GECs are supposed to land on the neutral bus not the EGC bus, when they're separate buses (unless they're joined by a conductor, not the enclosure, like a neutral-current pathway).
 
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