Grant Expansion Update

Grant Update
2/12/2025
The 26 customers in the area outlined in black (including Hurricane Creek Rd) who have been awaiting service have now passed inspection and are ready for the final phase of construction. PES crews will begin installing service drops next week, with customer installations starting the following week. We appreciate your patience as contractors worked to identify and resolve the issues.
For the 80+ customers in the red-circled area below, additional issues were discovered as we began completing service drops and scheduling installations. While not a major problem, it is a time-consuming process requiring revisions to fiber tracing and labeling. Based on updates from the contractors, only 5-6 locations will be ready for scheduling next week.
We appreciate your patience as we work through these adjustments.
For the customers circled below a few locations passed final inspection and drops will also begin within the next 2 weeks by PES. The remaining locations appear to still be weeks away.
On a positive note, our other contractor crew remains on schedule. If the weather cooperates and the ground dries enough to allow access through certain fields, they may finish slightly ahead of schedule. However, looking at the current weather forecast, this is unlikely.
In the brown area outlined in red, only a few hundred feet of fiber remain to be placed before completion. As soon as the ground is firm enough to prevent damage to farmland, this work will be finished.
Meanwhile, installations in the brown area outlined in blue are scheduled to begin the last week of February.
We appreciate your patience and will continue to provide updates as conditions allow.