Contractors - Responsibility

Digging responsibly means you:

• Request, in advance, that the operators of buried utilities identify and mark the locations of utilities that could be in conflict with your ground disturbance.
• Pre-mark your dig site with white paint.
• Meet with locators to explain the scope and extent of your ground disturbance.
• Wait until all utilities have been marked before you dig.
• Ensure operators of excavation equipment have copies of, and understand, the locate documentation.
• Support and protect exposed utilities to the satisfaction of the utility operator.
• Report any damage (caused or found).
• Respect the locate marks. Hand expose buried utilities in conflict with a ground disturbance before using mechanical excavation equipment within the hand expose zone.
• Backfill exposed utilities with care.