Volume 4. No 7 Information Technology News of the University of California, Davis April 1996

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NetWork 21

Fiber Optic Cable Goes Underground

To protect the environment and reduce disruption during the construction phase, boring techniques will be used whenever possible. Boring minimizes disturbance to ground surface by using electronic signals to guide an underground metal rod to forge a conduit route. Rather than creating an open trench from point to point, boring requires only a small "entry pit" and "receiving pit" on each end of the installation site.

At any rate, campus departments will be notified regularly as to where construction will take place. Here's a look at what you can expect in the next couple weeks:

• April 4-9: Boring will begin at the cable vault on the northeast side of the Telecommunications Building, extending 88-feet to a manhole near the bike path west of TB172. Traffic will not be impacted.

  Boring also will take place on the south side of TB 191 due west for 56-feet to a small pull box on the adjacent bike path. A safety work area will be set up in one area of the bike path, which will remain open.

• April 10-16: Boring will take place along Hutchison Drive, beginning approximately 800-feet east of Highway 113 to a point 400-feet west of LaRue Road. The boring will be several feet off road and traffic will not be affected.

  A second conduit route will be bored from midpoint in the above route due south to a drop point near Medical Sciences 1B. Traffic will not be affected.

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