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, …
Here’s 10 of this weeks top stories in the Utility Locate and Damage Prevention industries:. 4M Analytics raises $30M to map US underground utility infrastructure: link Water distribution shutdowns point to issues: link Broadband funding for Native communities could finally connect some of America’s most isolated places: link Schlumberger launches Enterprise Data Solution powered by Microsoft Energy Data Services: link Sinkhole safety: link Geoff Zeiss’ …
Utility Alert is back with another weekly update from the world of utility locating! Feel free to drop a comment below if you have more info on any of the stories we’re covering this week. FirstEnergy Named Top Utility for Economic Development by Site Selection Magazine for Fourth Year in a Row: link Wisconsin utilities brace for potential fallout of rail …
Are you interested in Damage Prevention and Utility Locating? Here’s 10 stories you might have missed from this week: What are your obligations as an excavator?: link Project to replace nearly 20,000 feet of waterlines about to begin in Floyd County: link CGA Announces Susan O’Malley as Keynote of 2023 CGA Conference & Expo: link New Approach to Pipe Burst Prevention is Welcome …