Petition from National Grid and Verizon, requesting a joint pole location for North Boardway WR# 31355845
Hearing for December 1,2026
- Letter from Dave Johnson, Supervisor, Distribution Design, National Grid, August 27, 2026, PDF, one page, opens in a new tab
- Petition for Joint or Identical Pole Locations, PDF, one page, opens in a new tab
- Joint owned pole petition plan, North Broadway, PDF, one page, opens in a new tab
- Order for Joint or Identical Pole Locations, with the clerk’s certificate, PDF, two pages, opens in a new tab
- Certified abutters list, PDF, two pages, opens in a new tab
Petition for Joint or Identical Pole Locations
North Andover, Massachusetts
To The City Council
Of Haverhill, Massachusetts
Massachusetts Electric Company d/b/a NATIONAL GRID and Verizon New England, Inc requests permission to locate poles, wires, and fixtures, including the necessary sustaining and protecting fixtures, along and across the following public way:
North Broadway - National Grid to install 1 JO pole on North Broadway beginning at a point approximately 749 feet Northwest of the centerline of the intersection of St. Onge Terrace and continuing approximately 15 feet in a West direction. National Grid will install pole 48-84 and anchor and guy in public way on North Broadway. The new pole 48-84 to be located approximately 58’ Southwest of existing pole 48. New pole 48-84 to provide utilities to new customers at 416 North Broadway, Haverhill, MA.
Location approximately as shown on plan attached.
Wherefore it prays that after due notice and hearing as provided by law, it be granted a location for and permission to erect and maintain poles and wires, together with such sustaining and protecting fixtures as it may find necessary, said poles to be erected substantially in accordance with the plan filed herewith marked – North Broadway - Haverhill, Massachusetts.
No.# 31355845
Also, for permission to lay and maintain underground laterals, cables, and wires in the above or intersecting public ways for the purpose of making connections with such poles and buildings as each of said petitioners may desire for distributing purposes.
Your petitioner agrees to reserve space for one cross-arm at a suitable point on each of said poles for the fire, police, telephone, and telegraph signal wires belonging to the municipality and used by it exclusively for municipal purposes.
Order for Joint or Identical Pole Locations
August 27, 2026
To the City Council Of Haverhill, Massachusetts
Notice having been given and public hearing held, as provided by law, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED: that Massachusetts Electric Company d/b/a NATIONAL GRID and VERIZON NEW ENGLAND INC. (formerly known as NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY) be and they are hereby granted joint or identical locations for and permission to erect and maintain poles and wires to be placed thereon, together with such sustaining and protecting fixtures as said Companies may deem necessary, in the public way or ways hereinafter referred to, as requested in petition of said Companies dated the 26th day of August, 2026.
All construction under this order shall be in accordance with the following conditions:
Poles shall be of sound timber, and reasonable straight, and shall be set substantially at the points indicated upon the plan marked – North Broadway - Haverhill, Massachusetts.
No.# 31355845
Filed with this order:
There may be attached to said poles by Massachusetts Electric Company d/b/a NATIONAL GRID and Verizon New England Inc. such wires, cables, and fixtures as needed in their business and all of said wires and cables shall be placed at a height of not less than twenty (20) feet from the ground.
The following are the public ways or part of ways along which the poles above referred to may be erected, and the number of poles which may be erected thereon under this order:
North Broadway - National Grid to install 1 JO pole on North Broadway beginning at a point approximately 749 feet Northwest of the centerline of the intersection of St. Onge Terrace and continuing approximately 15 feet in a West direction. National Grid will install pole 48-84 and anchor and guy in public way on North Broadway. The new pole 48-84 to be located approximately 58’ Southwest of existing pole 48. New pole 48-84 to provide utilities to new customers at 416 North Broadway, Haverhill, MA.
Also, for permission to lay and maintain underground laterals, cables, and wires in the above or intersecting public ways for the purpose of making connections with such poles and buildings as each of said petitioners may desire for distributing purposes.