Usually, when a utility company trims the trees around your power lines, you might assume the crew is going to haul away anything it cuts down. In Clinton, Mississippi, a group of homeowners learned the hard way that sometimes the opposite happens. The debris gets left where it is. Months after Entergy contractors cut trees along the lines, the wood is still there. Worse, it is the homeowners, not the utility, now on the hook for cleaning it up.
Joedda and Paul Gore are among the frustrated. They say Entergy crews cut trees along the power lines at their East Northside Drive home back in January. Months later, hundreds of pounds of wood remain in front of the house. Adding insult to injury, the city has started citing the Gores over the debris. As Joedda Gore put it, “It’s not our mess, and we have got no response.”
But the Gores aren’t alone. Their neighbors on Normandy Drive and Tanglewood Drive have the same problem. Mack Hughes watched a crew cut on his property and then leave. When he came back, the wood hadn’t been hauled off, and instead it had been piled by a tree…