1. One Call (811) will mark out all my utilities. One Call usually marks only the public portions of the underground utilities. Sometimes they mark elec[...]
1. One Call (811) will mark out all my utilities. One Call usually marks only the public portions of the underground utilities. Sometimes they mark electrical power, telecommunication, and natural gas[...]
Utility Survey Corp. was contracted to locate underground transite pipes at a school property. Transite pipes contain asbestos and could be a potential environmental concern. The goal was to find them[...]
Before drilling holes into the ground for soil/water samplings, a underground utility survey should be conducted to avoid hitting any present utilities.
For soil and water samplings in environmental investigations, drilling locations are usually chosen strategically, as unlimited locations are not an option. One type of location of interest is where f[...]
X-Ray is widely used in medical diagnosis due to its ability to pass through matter and provide high-resolution images.
To reduce the risk of hitting underground utilities, a underground utility survey utilizing the ground penetrating radar (GPR) technology is often done before starting the ground-intrusive constructio[...]
January 4th, 2018. Happy New Year. What a way to start a new year! A Blizzard...Everything gets thrown off track in a snowstorm. Will the roads be clear for travel? How will the job site be affected? [...]
For a general question like “How deep can you see with ground penetrating radar (GPR)?”, the answer is usually a range such as “2 to 10 feet” or “up to 18 inches”. However, for a clients' specific sur[...]
Recently one of our techs did a concrete scanning job using ground penetrating radar (GPR) and he was referred by many people on-site as the “X-Ray guy”. This reminds us that it actually happens very [...]
Providing utility locating and related services is nothing new for Utility Survey Corp., in fact we have been in the business for almost thirty years! Our main focus almost 30 years ago started as a w[...]
