I am redoing the electrical in my 1940s house.

The house has no grounding electrodes but the meter and panel are grounded to my water pipe outside in the front of the house. (This actually looks like someone else's recent DIY hack job.)

To bring the electrical work up to code, I want to drive a ground rod right under the electric utility's meter. The only problem is that my **gas meter** would be located just a foot or so away.

I've already checked to make sure the rod itself wouldn't be driven into a gas line, but I need to know if it would be against code or just plain unwise to drive a ground rod here.

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*I found a very similar question [here](https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/electrical-lighting/where-install-grounding-rod-13649.html), but none of the responses specifically answer the question with regard to safety or code compliance:*