Next week we’ll be making a big announcement about Utility Alert but for now here’s this weeks top stories in the damage prevention world… Three natural gas lines struck in Welland on one day: fire chief link Pennsylvania One Call Once Again Hits One Million Tickets for 2022 link ELM Is Building a 125K-SF HQ and Manufacturing Plant for …
It’s hard to believe it’s already December! Here’s the latest damage prevention news and stories… 10 Utility Locating Best Practices link Dominion Energy gets go-ahead to put natural gas pipeline under Blue Ridge Parkway link COVID-19 Impact Analysis of Underground Utilities link Are Elon Musk’s boring projects going ahead in Florida? link Sparus Holdings Acquires United Locating Services link Urban water …
Happy (Belated) Thanksgiving, hope you all had lots of turkey! Just because it’s a holiday doesn’t mean damage prevention takes a day off. Here are this weeks top stories: Ask SAM: Why aren’t more utility lines buried underground in Winston-Salem?link Distribution grid lessons learned in 2022 link Duquesne Light seeks innovative solutions to underground electrical cable challenges link Springdale Water …
Shane Hart wrote an article for dp-PRO which we thought was worth sharing. It talks about some of the different approaches and techniques you can employ to get the most out of current technologies in the locating industry which will in turn drive efficiency and cut down on the amount of time spent locating. You can read the full article …
The dig season is coming to a close here in the North, as snow hits the ground, but there’s still plenty of damage prevention going on. Let’s look at this weeks top stories: Digging will resume at site of mismarked gas line strike link Ditch Witch expands operations in Oklahoma town link Hidden ‘Paleo Valleys’ Could Help California Survive Droughts …
We’re just finishing up here at the Mid West Damage Prevention Conference in French Lick, IN. Here’s this weeks top stories from the utility and damage prevention worlds: Contractors Still Fail to Call 811 to Prevent Utility Strikes, Report Shows link Watch: Locating Underground Utilities & Excavation in Riverton, UT What Is Tracer Wire and What Is It For? link …
We’ll be at the MidWest Damage Prevention and Training Conference next week, but here’s a quick recap from this weeks top stories! Underline utilities at more risk than ever? — link Six Minnesota Cities Awarded More Than $5 Million in Innovative Business and Infrastructure Grants — link Ask SAM: Why aren’t more utility lines buried underground in Winston-Salem? — link …
There’s been some big changes in the utility locating and damage prevention worlds this week – here are our top 10 stories! GeoScan Land Surveying Lecture link Exodigo Partners With Esri to Improve Underground Mapping link California’s Mosquito Fire to Cost Utility PG&E $100 Million link National Grid Reveals Results of Subsurface Mapping Projects in New York link What led to last month’s Hagerstown …
Here’s our top 10 stories from the week: With all the fierce storms, should utilities be buried underground? — link National Grid investing in Exodigo -link Inflation Reduction Act: Increased Electrification and Resulting Utility Implications — link Locate Management Institute of Canada Adopts PointMan as Part of Its Training Program for Underground Facility Locators — link SAM Announces Acquisition of …
This has been a busy week for us here at Competers, but we’re glad to be back with another Utility Alert. Here’s our top 10 stories from the week: The Benign Energy Dictatorship: link Prep work along the Nimitz Highway: link Using AI to optimize the value of co-located solar and energy storage: link Relocating underground infrastructure for red line …