[AusNOG] Pipe hiccup in Melbourne

Mon Feb 9 16:58:42 EST 2015

Someone needs to. Take pictures and run :)

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Shaun McGuane <shaun at rackcentral.com> wrote:

>  I think it’s worth getting the deck chairs and an esky and park out
> front of NextDC
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> to see if any black SUV’s arrive.
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> Nice one J
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> Shaun
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> *From:* AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *James
> Braunegg
> *Sent:* Monday, 9 February 2015 4:24 PM
> *To:* Damien Gardner Jnr
> *Cc:* ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
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> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] Pipe hiccup in Melbourne
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> Dear Damien
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> I’ve contacted defense this afternoon after some advice and
> recommendations… hopefully they reply in time before we start drilling
> tomorrow.
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> Either way it will be interesting to see what occurs tomorrow.
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> Kindest Regards
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> *James Braunegg **P:*  1300 769 972  |  *M:*  0488 997 207 |  *D:*  (03)
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> *From:* Damien Gardner Jnr [mailto:rendrag at rendrag.net
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> *Sent:* Monday, February 09, 2015 4:01 PM
> *To:* James Braunegg
> *Cc:* Matthew VK3EVL; ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] Pipe hiccup in Melbourne
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> May be defence?  they tend to put stuff in the ground without registering
> it with the appropriate authorities..  We were having fibre pulled into our
> DC in Deakin West back in 2002-ish, when the borers hit a pair of unknown
> orange PVC pipes about 40cm below the footpath.  Called ACT Govt, who
> double-checked their plans, declared it to be unknown, and said to just rip
> up whatever was in the way, and continue with our works.
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> About 3 hours later two black ford explorers (I shit you not!) rocked up
> with dudes in suits causing quite a ruckus about needing to replace the
> pipes and not touch them again.  We ended up with one of the planning dudes
> from ACT Govt out to talk to them.  They wouldn't tell us what was going
> on, but upshoot was that the pipes had to be replaced before we could
> continue work.  The dudes in suits refused to identify themselves, so we
> ended up sending the bill for the extra work to ACT Govt, and they paid it.
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> Having been (allegedly) chased by the same vehicles after (allegedly,
> cough) dumpster diving at the defence facility next to Deakin Exchange, I
> can be pretty sure who owned the pipes :-p
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> On 9 February 2015 at 14:01, James Braunegg <james.braunegg at micron21.com>
> wrote:
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> Mathew
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> No, we are drilling tomorrow and on Thursday … We have found some unknown
> objects in the road however… which no provider listed in the street is
> saying they own…
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> Info here if you want to check if it’s your asset… … as it’s in the way of
> where we want to go…. ;)
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> http://melbournedarkfibre.com/mystery-unknown-metallic-asset-826-lorimer/
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> Kindest Regards
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of
> Matthew VK3EVL
> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2015 1:14 PM
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> Subject: [AusNOG] Pipe hiccup in Melbourne
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> James,
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> Did you drill somewhere you weren't supposed to? :P Looks like Pipe had a
> hiccup at least in Inner Melbourne around 12:25 for around 15-20 minutes.
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> Cheers
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> Matthew
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