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Figure 32: Pedestals
Underground drops are run to pedestals either in conduit or as direct buried cable.
Pedestals may or may not have identification numbers visible from the road.
Rural Alberta numbers translate as follows:
Example 90902
9 means rural
09 means I route (I is 9th letter)
02 means pedestal number 2
Most pedestals are not locked.
In Rural applications in Alberta a pedestal called an RJP or Rural Junction Point is used. This is where the
“Exchange” cable or urban cable transitions to the rural cable designations. Numbered like RJP -1
Hazards include jammed lids, overgrown shrubbery, bee nests, cobwebs, bugs, snakes, grease from cable and
voltage.
The binding posts in pedestals are not standard and may include 145B blocks, IDC blocks, BIX 1A blocks and
other binding post blocks. Some also have the underground drop spliced directly into the cable.
