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Prior planning prevents poor performance

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wires near trees

Placing wires where trees are meant to be only serves to increase maintenance costs. In the above example, you can see that the trees need to be pruned in an unsightly and unhealthy fashion in order to maintain reliable electric service to local utility customers. Better planning could have avoided this costly mistake.