Dominion underground project- what are my rights? They are saying I have to let them bury cable!

Gist and sting: project rep is saying Since neighbor granted an easement to bury a line in his yard “terms and conditions” require me to use the same transformer and allow them to bury cable horizontally about 50 ft across my backyard to join with my meter, or at minimum about ten feet horizontally across the top of my driveway till it reaches a corner of the house, and they will run service cable along the gables and soffit. (Creating maintenance and future construction nightmare for me)

I don’t want any norizontal cuts into my lawn. Do they have the right to do that in my side yard or refuse me power if I say no?

I just want to keep the old drop line on the other side of the house for now. They say since other neighbors agreed to let transformers and whatnot on their side of the driveway I must accept it.

A proposed alternative that they come up the other side of the house is problematic. They still have to drill across the side yard (do not want) an let them wrap service line around a small brick Walled sun porch and attached screen porch to the meter on the back of the house ( at the interior 90 degree angle where screen porch and house meet)

Right now the drop line meets a service line that runs trough an attic over that brick sun porch, and exits the roof again and meets with the meter. It’s grandfathered but any changes, even to the pole, would require that line be altered. They can’t just hook up new underground service to it.

I want them to go away and leave me alone. I do not want to let them drill horizontally through my side yard on either side of the house. I do not want to have underground lines right now. I do not want to let them wrap hard to maintain service line against the porches and my copper gutters.

I want the existing drop,line to stay exactly as it is.

I never agreed to this project, or any easement (they’ve never even asked) don’t want it, but they say I have to in order to have any power. Do they have an absolute right to tunnel through my side yard?

On the first side that’s the only place to bring heavy equipment in, and it’s also close to an oil tank. We plan to remove it and that would be a nightmare with electrical cable underground.

On the other side it creates maintenance nightmares and possible electrical interference due to proximity tocopper gutters and danger of electrocution when working on gutters if the line is ever damaged in any way. I don’t want an electrical cable horizontally cutting across the side yard right now.