Clearing Boring Locations and Drilling...Should it Be Completed the Same Day?
Before drilling holes into the ground for soil/water samplings, a underground utility survey should be conducted to avoid hitting any present utilities.
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[...]
Before drilling holes into the ground for soil/water samplings, a underground utility survey should be conducted to avoid hitting any present utilities.
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 [...]
In most cases, calling 811 (one-call) to schedule a public utility locate is only the first step for underground utility damage prevention. One-call may not have all the equipment necessary for compl[...]
One of the most challenging tasks for a civil engineer is dealing with outdated as-built plans for underground utilities.
If you are a contractor, builder or engineer looking to identify underground utilities on site for your excavation or building project, our underground utility surveying specialists can help you!
So what do you do when the utility locate company you hired doesn’t show up because of a little rain…? Why... you could start off by hiring the one that ALWAYS shows up!
Utility Survey Corp. has been in the utility locating business for over 20 years and we’re often asked if we use X-ray to look for conduits, rebar etc. inside of concrete slabs? The answer is always; [...]
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[...]
Locating Utilities Under Reinforcement Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) can be a great non-invasive investigation tool to determine conduits and pipes running underneath the reinforcement of a concrete [...]
One of the things I hear often from potential clients who want a utility locating survey performed on a large job site is, “It will only take a day or two because I don’t think there’s much there.” Ho[...]
