Taken Again - If You Can't Trust the Cell Tower Guy, Who Can You Trust?

I asked many questions before I agreed to allow a cell tower on my property. I also made it clear there were certain conditions I would never allow. The following pictures and those in the gallery Steve's Folley show how seriously my conditions and questions were treated. (View Pictures at www.sandyjordan.us/Dispute with Montgomery County.)

My hay field is off limits. As Steve's Folley shows, that was a joke.

How will the road be put in? How will the road go in? What will be done with the trees? What about erosion during construction? Will the access road tie in with my exhisting road so that no damage will be done to my road? Who will maintain the exhisting road up to the cut-off of the access road?

I was told that the cell tower company would maintain the road. Today I was told they weren't even going to put gravel on the exhixting road, no matter, because the cranes putting up the tower were going to tear everything up anyway. I was told the access road would be tied in to the exhisting road so that it would not cause any problems. One rain will clog and overfill the little culvert pipe installed and cause damage to my road. Don't worry, I'll take pictures when it happens. I was told all construction equipment would use the access road. I got a call today from Cell Tower Guy begging to go through my yard because the trucks and equipment could not make it up the access road because it is too steep. Tuff nuts! They should have done better planning! I was told there would be a fabric laid down on the road that would prevent erosion. As it was described, it was to go on the road bed under the gravel. None went down, and none will. The gravel trucks, I told the construction guy to stay clear of Sisson and Ryan Quarry and use Acco. He didn't listen. He got tan gravel that is half dirt instead of the clean stone used by Acco. The trucks couldn't get up the grade and refused to allow their trucks to be towed up the access road, so they dumped all the gravel in my road and the construction guy had to rent another piece of heavy equipment to haul the gravel up the road a bucket at a time. The trees? They weren't cut and stacked neatly, but pushed over with a backhoe and shoved into piles of usless trash all around the tower site and along the access road. So much for fire wood easily accessable.

Every promise given me has been broken. The call I received today promised that my yard would be put back to it's original condition if I would please let them drive their trucks through my yard. No! I'm not falling for that. I was told the same thing about the five foot split rail fence in the middle of my hay field. "We'll take it down after construction and make everything right." And frogs have wings!

It is human nature to want to trust people. Is that a bad thing? No. Is it wise to be skepticle? You bet! Is it foolish to make the same mistake twice? I think so. I don't care if they have to hire helicopters to get that blasted tower in. I don't care if they spend a fortune doing it. After they last email I got from Cell Tower Guy, I don't give a hoot in H E double hockey sticks how they get the job done so long as they stay the H E double hockey sticks away from anything on this property that is outside of their right of way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And I wish them all a wonderful Thanksgiving!