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811 Dig is a free service for public utility locating. They are nothing more than a call directory service that notifies public utility owners in the area. The utility owner sends out their own locator and finds the public utilities only. These are not ALL utilities!!

Public utilities are owned and maintained by a provider, Private utilities are owned and maintained by individuals or companies such as; property management groups, apartment complexes, schools and universities, and hospitals. The line of at which a utility is deemed public or private is considered “the point of service” or “the dissemination point”. This point is determined by each provider. None the less, all properties have a point of service at which the provider will no longer locate and a private locator will have to be contacted.

We use 2 different pieces of equipment in our locating process ElectroMagnetic Induction (EMI) and Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR). With our EMI locator we can find all items buried that conducts that either has a current already induced, has a localized frequency induced into it (ex: cell phone tower near by inducing tracing wire), or the conductor comes above ground so we can induce our own frequency or current into it. With our GPR unit we pick up on any item in the ground that has contrast of construct. This means any material that has a different core make up to it. Good examples of this would-be PVC buried in dirt/concrete etc., a layer of dirt/gravel etc. that is nonindigenous or hole that has been filled with dirt/gravel etc. that is nonindigenous, or cadavers buried in dirt/concrete/gravel etc. We can use the GPR to read through many different mediums, the depth is affected however as the dielectric constant of the medium changes.