Recently TXDOT purchased some highway footage from me.
The forced the power company to move their power poles as well.
They placed them inches from my property line.
The power lines actually hang over my property now.
Can they legaly do this. If they can what law allows them to do this.
This seems like an overreach by the power company.

Mark Berry
Sunnyvale TX

Depends on easement purchased, and sounds like they need to revisit what the prior easement agreement states.
Other things to consider: are the transmission lines for the carrier or service lines from your provider
A lot of service agreements carry blanket property easements.
Looks like you might have Farmers and I think they do

Lived in a house on a residential lot w/ the over head power lines were strung behind the lot. There was a transformer almost in the middle of my fence line. My neighbors power drops ran above my yard. There were 3 drops mine and both neighbors running through my yard and to the transformer. It was the mix master of a squirrel super highway.

Had an AT&T tech out one day installing internet and he told me that I could call Center Point and have them moved. That the lines were trespassing on my property. He said if they are slow to respond, tell them you will cut the lines.

I called and someone assured me that they would come look. After a couple of months w/o hearing from them, I called again and threatened to cut the lines. My call was immediately escalated and a nice lady told me someone would be out tomorrow.

Sure enough, they came out and the dude said he had never seen anything like it before. The next day they moved them.

Not exactly high voltage, but maybe you can threaten to cut down the poles...

If OP is in Sunnyvale, then I'm assuming this is Oncor.

Were the poles previously in TxDOT ROW? If so, they probably don't have an easement, just an agreement with TxDOT to have their poles located in the ROW. As long as they rebuilt them in the new ROW, there's really nothing you can do about it. I suppose you could try to make them take an aerial easement on your property, but it's going to be more trouble than it's worth.

f that. Panasonic shouldn't get to dictate the taking/destruction of those people's property.

P.H. Dexippus said:

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f that. Panasonic shouldn't get to dictate the taking/destruction of those people's property.

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in Texas that would go through a provider who would simply tie into a current wanted expansion project and then the PUC would approve it for the betterment of the community. Happening in Medina County right now with data centers.

Yep, going straight through my in-laws place with ~100ft towers. Absolute shame

mberry5460 said:

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Recently TXDOT purchased some highway footage from me.
The forced the power company to move their power poles as well.
They placed them inches from my property line.
The power lines actually hang over my property now.
Can they legaly do this. If they can what law allows them to do this.
This seems like an overreach by the power company.

Mark Berry
Sunnyvale TX

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Check your survey. Are the power lines in the utility easement?

P.H. Dexippus said:

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f that. Panasonic shouldn't get to dictate the taking/destruction of those people's property.

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To be fair…Evergy is to blame. Sounds like bad siting, to me

P.H. Dexippus said:

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f that. Panasonic shouldn't get to dictate the taking/destruction of those people's property.

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Yea, well, it probably happened here at some point to allow all of us to get electricity to where our homes currently reside.