Have you ever wondered where a power pole goes after it comes out of the ground? Or where the hundreds of damaged poles from ...

Two weeks after a fierce dust storm toppled roughly 70 wooden utility poles across the Las Vegas Valley, crippling businesses ...

Instead of sending wood poles to landfills after they are decommissioned, SRP is recycling them through a new program.

After 30 years, they're still somewhat very viable to be used. And they don't suffer from any type of rot or mold. And that ...

A: Chris L. Phillips, electric operations superintendent for Dothan Utilities, said in an email that Osmose inspects a percentage of Dothan Utilities’ poles annually. “Currently wood poles are ...

Turn old ski poles into a garden trellis or other home and garden accessories, like curtain rods, wind chimes, drying racks ...

As Tucson Electric Power replaces wooden utility poles with more durable steel structures, the obsolete husks of wood pop up in other spots around town.

Florida Power & Light is replacing wooden utility poles with concrete ones in Bay County to improve storm resilience. The project aims to speed up recovery times and minimize power outages after ...

They’re working on replacing wooden utility poles with stronger and more long-lasting concrete poles.

Even though Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone in 1876, the invention caught on slowly. Bollinger County provides an example of how the telephone came into general use over time, and how ...

“Utility poles and railroad ties have historically been treated with one of three main types of heavy-duty wood preservatives: chromated arsenical, creosote and pentachlorophenol,” the DEP ...