Safety

Allow Us to Trim Your Trees

When you signed up for electrical service, you agree to allow us to maintain adequate line clearance to assure safe, reliable service. Blinking lights and outages cause by trees growing into power lines can be reduced when PVREA personnel trim or remove trees. Please help us by cooperating with our efforts to maintain maximum right-of-way clearance on your property.

Poudre Valley REA utilizes its own crew and contractor crews to clear trees and brush along the right-of-way of our power lines. This is done to provide safe and reliable service. We try to maintain a three year tree trimming cycle on our lines in the plains section of our service territory and a 8-12 year cycle in our mountain service territory. If you feel that you have trees that need to be trimmed or removed because they are too close to our power lines, please call our main office (970-226-1234 of 800-432-1234) and we will have our tree trimming crew work with you to resolve the problem.

Never attempt to trim or remove trees that are touching or nearly touching a power line. A tree, close to a power line, may come in contact with the line and will eventually grow into the power line. You should never trim this tree yourself. Poudre Valley REA will send a specially trained crew with the proper tools and equipment to trim or remove the tree. Trimming close to power line may cause a trimmed piece to fall into the line. A dead tree near a power line may fall into the line. Never climb into a tree that is near or contacting a power line. Never bring anything within 10 feet of a power line.

Poudre Valley REA • PO Box 272550, 7649 REA Parkway, Fort Collins, CO 80527-2550 - Map
Phone: 970.226.1234 • FAX: 970.226.2123 • Email: pvrea@pvrea.com