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Water Meter Tampered by AT&T Technician
On Sunday April 21st, 2024, around 2pm, we noticed that our water meter was tempered by someone, after reviewing our video camera footage, we noticed a technician from AT&T remove the cover of the water meter and ran wires inside the water meter. This is unacceptable, especially when we were home and not notified that someone would be on our property. We now have to verify that the water meter was not damaged or altered in any way.
skeeterintexas
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2 months ago
You need to report this to your local water utilities since the meter belongs to them and they can see if any damage was done.
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Juniper
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2 months ago
That is concerning as I cannot fathom a reason why an AT&T tech needs to work with a water meter.
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spoom2
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2 months ago
Or it was an AT&T handhole. Even if it was your water meter he wouldn't have access to any wires in it. Have you pulled the cover and looked?
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JefferMC
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2 months ago
Maybe he couldn't tell the difference between a water meter access cover and a hand hole?
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spoom2
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2 months ago
My bet is it is a handhole. Unless that's unlike any water meter that I've ever seen, there's no wires in it and even if there were the tech would recognize it right off and wouldn't touch anything that wasn't AT&T. That's why I asked the OP if they pulled the cover to look. Plus the non-response from the OP.
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OttoPylot
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2 months ago
Maybe he was following a line and wanted to make sure that it didn't go thru the water meter box. But yeah, I doubt very seriously he would be needing to do anything with the water meter.
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spoom2
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2 months ago
A picture of the lid would prove it one way or the other if the OP is interested.
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my thoughts
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2 months ago
I would suspect you’re right @spoom2 @as the end of the driveway appears to be less than 15 feet from the ground level box, either a fiber NID or conduit to run fiber to…. Thus is an easement, no notification required to perform work in an easement.
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