[BC] Antenna Question

[Mike McCarthy]

The county can add anything they desire so long as it's already an 
ordinance under home rule or there is a valid reason...ie it 
could  not be arbitrary and capricious. Unless there is a state or 
Federal statute securing federal/state jurisdiction, they can add (or 
in some cases supercede) pretty much anything. It's not uncommon for 
the locals to add all kinds of goofy things to the project.

If there are marking balls on the guy lines, I'll bet you they're 
either for bird diversion (trust me...we need to put them on 6 
towers) or as you point out--crop dusting.  The former is something 
the USFWS is pushing BIG TIME through the Army Corps.  If you have a 
tower project involving a wetland, you'll be certain of one 
thing...the USFWS will send you their "Guidelines".  Then the Army 
Corps will back up those guidelines by making you accept provisions 
contained within them or no permit short of court litigation or the 
full permit process.  Which then adds YEARS to the process.

We felt it's simply better and more expedient to put the diverters on 
the guy lines than to fight what would be a long a protracted battle, 
likely carried by the local media and making us look quite 
unfavorable in front of the local councils who needed to approve of 
the project AFTER the USACE approved the project.

It was a no win situation for us...and it's going to be cheaper to 
install the 1500 diverters than to have fought it out....

MM

At 08:27 AM 5/12/2008 -0500, Kevin Trueblood wrote
>I am presuming you're wondering about the orange balls?
>
>It's supposed to be for marking the guy wires for small planes like 
>crop dusters.  We're building a new tower at a contract station 
>(next to I-55 just south of Lexington, IL), and the county was going 
>to require them in the building permit.  Although we weren't sure 
>how the county had jurisdiction over it, eventually we got the 
>building permit without the ball requirement.