System and method for facilitating underground communication cable installation utilizing soil erosion techniques

A method, comprising:

• facilitating underground installation of communication cable connectible between a communication signal source and a building by:
• connecting a controllable source of water to an input end of a continuous and flexible conduit having a circumferential grooved frictional surface on the outside of said conduit near an output end of said conduit for facilitating attachment of said cable and having a permanent curve-bias curving said conduit;
• placing said output end of said conduit at, and orienting said output end into, ground surface adjacent one side of an obstruction blocking a desired underground pathway for said underground installation;
• activating said controllable source of water to flow into said input end at water pressure which, if said input end water flow were instead flowing directly upon said ground, would be sufficient to cause erosion of said ground surface and ground beneath said ground surface, said water flowing out from said output end at substantially said pressure directly upon said ground;
• directing said conduit cause a pathway of said erosion of said ground beneath said ground surface to follow an expected route under said obstruction, said expected route being shaped similarly to shape of said curved conduit, said permanent curve-bias being useful regarding distance traversed underground, said distance being consistent with size of said obstruction, until said conduit emerges from said ground surface adjacent the other side of said obstruction;
• disconnecting said source of water from said input end;
• feeding said communication cable through said erosion pathway by either:
• (a) lashing said grooved frictional surface fixedly to said cable and pulling said conduit along with said lashed cable from said other side to said one side or by (b) feeding one end of said communication cable into said input end or said output end of said conduit while said conduit is positioned under said obstruction until said one end of said communication cable emerges from said output end or said input end, respectively;
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• if (b) is chosen, removing said conduit from under said obstruction leaving a portion of said cable in said expected route under said obstruction with said one end emerged from under said obstruction.

A method comprising:

• forcing water under high pressure through a continuous and flexible conduit having a circumferential grooved frictional surface on the outside of said conduit near an output end of said conduit and having a permanent curve-bias curving said conduit, said water forced directly onto ground surface located on one side of a surface-visible underground pathway obstruction;
• guiding said conduit to permit said high pressure water to create an erosion pathway under said obstruction, said erosion pathway being shaped similarly to shape of said curved conduit, said permanent curve bias being useful regarding distance traversed underground, said distance being consistent with size of said obstruction, said erosion pathway emerging from ground surface located on the other side of said obstruction, said conduit being pushed through said pathway as said pathway is created and emerging from said pathway on the other side of said obstruction after said pathway is created;
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• after disconnecting source of said water from said conduit, feeding a communication cable through said erosion pathway by lashing said grooved frictional surface fixedly to said cable and pulling said conduit along with said lashed cable from said other side to said one side.