And now we have the "but I once saw such and such and etcetera, etcetera, ad infinitum", so the rules don't matter.
To take your comments one at a time. If, and that is a very big IF, you have a PVC water main at your house, the electrician who wired the house would have installed an 8 foot ground rod, and would have GROUNDED the electric service to it. Telecommunications, such as CATV, DBS, and Telco, does not GROUND anything. We BOND to the electric service GROUND. Since we are BONDED, we are also GROUNDED. If we were to hammer a separate ground rod into the ground, we would be GROUNDED, but not BONDED. The NEC requires telecommunications to be BONDED to the electric service GROUND to prevent a potential difference between the two systems.
As to the second comment, the NEC makes no allowances for stucco'ed over ground wires. You still must bond to the electric service ground.
Here we go again
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