It sounds like you have a survey from when you bought the house. How wide does it show the public street right-of-way? How wide is the street paving from the far back of curb to the near back of curb? Do the math to find the right-of-way line.

Many older plats (looking at your street pavement condition, you're there) have a marginal note that dedicates an easement adjacent to all (insert location) lot lines (x) feet in width for utilities etc. Do you have a copy of the plat?

I would go full Harvey Updike on my own tree, then make them pay you for it.

Since there's a manhole there, I can almost guarantee there's a utility easement there, too. However, there's also a really good chance that those cables are sitting outside the easement on your property. Those cables aren't allowed to be there, but as others have said, you better be dang sure they're on your property before doing anything to them.

Edit: if it were me, I'd get get some of that orange plastic fence at home depot and set up my own fence on the easement line. Tell them that their equipment, their dirt, and their cables don't cross that line or you will call the police.

normaleagle05 said:

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It sounds like you have a survey from when you bought the house. How wide does it show the public street right-of-way? How wide is the street paving from the far back of curb to the near back of curb? Do the math to find the right-of-way line.

Many older plats (looking at your street pavement condition, you're there) have a marginal note that dedicates an easement adjacent to all (insert location) lot lines (x) feet in width for utilities etc. Do you have a copy of the plat?

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Bingo. 99% chance the back of curb is not your property line. Judging by the manhole in the picture they look to be excavating in an easement. The other junk (conduit, trash, dirt piles, etc) may be on your property.

How do you know where their easement and your property line is located? Do you have a copy of the plat or a survey showing said lines?

We had this issue at our old house, freaking grande was our headache.

The crew had an old Chevrolet truck and my neighbor went and took the wires off the distributor cap when they went to lunch. The never figured out the firing order and had it towed. He called the police once they crossed their easement line and the police documented everything. They replaced everything they touched. It was a headache but in the end everything was fixed. Good luck.