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 …
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 …
We’re at the Texas811 Damage Prevention Summit this week in Denton, but that doesn’t mean the news stop. Here’s are top 10 stories of the week: Gas line break on Old North Road in Hudson causes road closure: link How far down the iceberg are you? link CAG report exposes fault lines in city’s underground utility mapping: link Watch: The …
As the damage prevention industry continues to evolve, we’ll continue to track it. Here’s this week’s top stories: More than 1.8 million Florida utility customers without power: link Caterpillar has released two new Mini Hydraulic Excavator (MHE) Ease of Use technologies — Indicate and E-Fence: link Bill to accelerate undergrounding of power lines awaits Newsom’s signature: link With month-long event, …