![]() Outside utility locating services may be contracted by the companies to perform the actual work. Personnel from the pipeline or underground utility company themselves may come to perform the location of the underground facility. Private lines, such as the natural gas service line after the meter or a home-owner's own installed gas line, are not marked by utility companies. Utilities and pipelines are marked using the APWA Color Code System. The purpose of these programs is to prevent damage to pipelines and facilities from excavation activities, such as digging, trenching, blasting, boring, tunneling, backfilling, or by any other digging activity.Īmerican Public Works Association (APWA) Color Code System State and federally regulated pipeline companies maintain Damage Prevention Programs. ![]() More information regarding 811 can be found at State One Call Requirements Once underground lines have been marked for your project, you will know the approximate location of your pipelines and utility lines and can dig safely. ![]() One easy, FREE phone call to 811 starts the process to get your underground pipelines and utility lines marked. When you call 811 from anywhere in the country, your call will be routed to your state's One-Call Center. Sometimes pipeline companies will require a representative to be present to monitor the safe excavation. By contacting the One-Call Center first, this type of damage can be prevented. In fact, most serious damage done to pipelines is done when a third party inadvertently excavates, blasts, or drills within a pipeline right-of-way. Because even relatively minor excavation activities like landscaping or fencing can cause damage to a pipeline, its protective casing, and/or buried utility lines, always contact your state's One-Call Center before engaging in any excavation, construction, farming, or digging. Most states require two working-days' notice to the One-Call center to allow the utility companies to mark their pipelines and utilities at your proposed digging site.
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