Posted by JD Seller on May 29, 2016 at 08:45:53 from (208.126.198.123):
In Reply to: Call before you dig posted by cuby on May 29, 2016 at 07:49:38:
Calling the 811 number in Iowa gets the utility companies notified to send out locating people. Each company has to send their own people. So the phone guy would just do the phone. The Gas line fellow would just do the gas lines. So on and so on. They have 48 hours to locate all the recorded utilities. So you just had the phone guy show up. There should be others IF you property has any recorded buried utilities.
In the country the system is kind of vague on many things. My current address brings them out to mark a natural gas line. It is 1100 feet from any place on this property. It runs along a North-South section line. That line is 1100 feet East of this property. The maps show it running on the WEST side of the section line.
I called them when I buried the electric here 5 years ago. The phone and electric guys had zero issues. The young fellow for the gas company was lost. I even showed him the markers at fence lines but he was adamant that his GPS gadget was right. He finally marked a line he "Found" and called it the gas natural gas line he had on his GPS gadget. I guess he did do some good in that he located the water line that used to go to a torn down hog building. I did dig down to it and installed a water hydrant. LOL
So like Charlie posted never totally trust the locations that they mark. Really the call just helps you on liability issues not actual 100% markings.
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