IN A metropolitan transmission system where high voltage underground cable is used extensively, the calculation of fault currents that can exist for the various possible conditions of short circuit is an important phase of protective relay practice. Fault calculations involving balanced 3- phase currents are comparatively simple, and, since the circuit constants usually are known with a fair degree of accuracy, reliable results readily may be obtained. For unbalanced faults, however, the calcu¬lations are more complex. If a grounded neutral is involved, the presence of a ground return in the cir¬cuit requires additional circuit information—zero sequence impedance—which for power cable circuits usually is difficult to compute. In an effort to elimi¬nate the uncertainty from the assumed constants involved in the calculation of zero sequence im¬pedances by obtaining actual impedance data on its transmission cables, the Brooklyn Edison Com¬pany made a series of tests on its 27 kv underground system. It is with the impedance measurements made during these tests that this paper is concerned.