"5 Assumptions" Series - Assumption # 5
Assumption # 5: Assuming You Will Walk Away With No Responsibility If Something Goes Wrong Even if you’ve dismissed the other four assumptions as not being your concern or responsibility, there are fo[...]
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[...]
Assumption # 5: Assuming You Will Walk Away With No Responsibility If Something Goes Wrong Even if you’ve dismissed the other four assumptions as not being your concern or responsibility, there are fo[...]
Assumption # 4: Assuming Underground Utilities Are Abandoned There are four reasons to worry if you are making this assumption! 1. Abandoned utilities does not mean inactive utilities.
Assumption # 3: Assuming There Are No Utilities in the Area You Are Working In These 3 reasons should help you avoid making this assumption! 1. Beware of the open lot that’s up for redevelopment.
Assumption # 2: Assuming That "As - Builts" Are Accurate There are four vital reasons you should not be making this assumption... 1. Many utility prints were not accurate from day one because the util[...]
Assumption # 1: Assuming One-Call/Safe-Dig Call Outs Are All You Need There are six key problems with making this assumption..> One-Call is only required to mark the utilities that are owned by the[...]
Locating Underground Storage Tanks – Or Not One of the more common requests we get is to locate Underground Storage Tanks (USTs). These can be situated on commercial or residential properties. It ofte[...]
In thetwenty-five years Utility Survey Corp. has been in business this is one of the worst winters any of us here can recall. Bad as the winter’s been though we’ve never stopped getting out there to l[...]
How We Make the Case for Multiple Technologies Having multiple underground locating technologies available simultaneously, which include GPR, Radio Frequency (RF) Pipe and Cable Locators and Electro-M[...]
