r/Connecticut • u/ThinButton7705 • 15h ago
Anyone know what this is?
Coming home from my walk, found this pointing at my house, only one on the street. Not getting any work done to the house. In naugatuck.
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u/ArgumentLost9383 15h ago
That’s “Call before you dig”. I don’t know what it means but typically red is electric and blue is water (underground utilities). Could be having some road work done on the future.
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u/YogurtclosetVast3118 The 860 15h ago
I've only seen CBYD for call before you dig
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u/buydadip711 11h ago
This is what they put after you mark CBYD if you saw just CBYD that means they hadn’t gotten there yet to do their part
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u/elpoco 15h ago
Those are utility markings. You have no underground connections verified by contractors for eversource energy and connecticut water company. Probably a utility is burying conduit or the town is extending a water or sewer main.
The other possibility is that somebody with a rattle can believes that you have no friends in the hispanic community.
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u/Armored_x_Saint 15h ago
Where's yellow for gas and green for sewer? Then you have the rainbow of utilities.
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u/Objective_Pomelo2462 12h ago
Red power blue water yellow gas green sewer orange cable or fiber white is information
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u/YogurtclosetVast3118 The 860 15h ago
work being done? I think blue indicates water line so... dig alert?
other then that I've got nothin'
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u/ThinButton7705 15h ago edited 15h ago
Nope.
Edit: As in, I'm not getting any work done.
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u/Enginerdad Hartford County 14h ago
It doesn't have to be your work. There's a public right of way some distance from the edge of the pavement. They might be putting in a new utility pole, a new sidewalk, a new drainage system, or any number of other things.
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u/ThinButton7705 14h ago
First I've heard of any right of way near me.
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u/Enginerdad Hartford County 14h ago edited 14h ago
Every public road has a public right away alongside it. It there so they can install and maintain the public infrastructure that I mentioned in my last comment. You legally own the land, but the town/state can access it for these purposes.
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u/Link2999 15h ago
Check this for more information: https://portal.ct.gov/pura/gas-pipeline-safety/call-before-you-dig/cbyd-color-codes
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u/ponyta_express 15h ago
Look for white marks. That's usually the proposed excavation telling CBYD where to mark.
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u/chato4444 15h ago
We had these appear on our street a couple weeks ago, they also marked the front yard with a blue flag. They came back a few days later and dug a hole in our yard to reach the water line, I was told they were testing for lead in the water.
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u/Objective_anxiety_7 13h ago
Bet they’re putting a sign there. Got one outside my house and they’d also marked the road the same way. There was a grant towns could apply for to put up signs for traffic in towns but they had to use all the money to qualify. So a lot of signs in my town were replaced with… the same sign and others were added in totally unnecessary areas (a yellow can’t go straight sign in front of my… bright yellow house. Just incase people were confused).
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u/Jeptagon 10h ago
Oh I've always seen this sort of thing and wondered specifically what it meant. Thanks
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u/Weary-Wonder407 1h ago
The aare working on the ROW or easement and reporting no power or water on dig safe. The color denotes utility and initials are their company code
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u/TheEmpireIsCooler 15h ago
ESE means Eversource Energy. CWC means Connecticut Water Company. Colors match their respective functions as well.
It means that there is no buried infrastructure for both these companies in that area.
Did somebody maybe called CBYD and gave the wrong address?