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ASU2003 · 10-27-2007, 05:59 PM

Does it cost a homeowner any money to have any one of these underground utility marker companies come out to mark up your yard? Or does that cost get passed on to the utility company (who will pass it back to you on your monthly bill)?

Push-Pull · 10-27-2007, 07:13 PM

I *think* that it's free, but to be sure, give APS or Southwest Gas a call. I'm sure that they can provide you with that info. I imagine that they'd rather provide the service than risk someone blowing up the neighborhood.

LazyBoy · 10-28-2007, 12:45 AM

Its usually free here.....its easier than the headache they'd have to deal with if you hit something lol

-Will

cj22009 · 10-29-2007, 08:00 AM

Call Before you dig is a free service the util companies pay for the service

kurty[B] · 10-29-2007, 08:02 AM

It depends on the utility company. Every utility company I have delt with offers the service free. Like said before, they would rather mark things off first than deal with repairing a broken line, pipe, or blown up building.

Give your utility company a call, ask what all they mark, ask if they'll mark off all lines, or if you need to call the cable company as well. Good luck.

waltert · 10-29-2007, 11:39 AM

here there's a hotline you can call: 1800 dig-tess. and its free. I HIGHLY reccomend getting your property marked if you're using power digging tools. there's nothing quite like the exhilaration that you get when you cut through a high pressure natural gas line with a ditch witch. lucky that nothing ignited it...

its a lesson I'll probably never forget.

Redlemon · 10-29-2007, 12:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by waltert

here there's a hotline you can call: 1800 dig-tess.

I was going to say that the phone numbers are different in each state, but I just searched and found...

Quote:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 24, 2007

Contact:
Erika Andreasen
(703) 836-1709
erikaa@commongroundalliance.com

CGA launches national 811 "Call Before You Dig" number and Web site to help save lives and protect American underground infrastructure

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Common Ground Alliance (CGA) today announced the launch of a new national 811 "Call Before You Dig" Web site – www.call811.com – designed to serve as a national resource for professional excavators. The new Web site is being launched this week to educate industry audiences about the new 811 "Call Before You Dig" telephone number. The national number will be launched to the public in May of 2007.

...

So, check out Call 811 - Know what's below while you are at it. A sub-page, State Specific Information, will get you more information about, well, you guessed it.

10-27-2007, 05:59 PM	#1 (permalink)
ASU2003 immoral minority Location: Back in Ohio	Call before you dig Does it cost a homeowner any money to have any one of these underground utility marker companies come out to mark up your yard? Or does that cost get passed on to the utility company (who will pass it back to you on your monthly bill)?

10-27-2007, 07:13 PM	#2 (permalink)
Push-Pull I'll ask when I'm ready.... Location: Firmly in the middle....	I think that it's free, but to be sure, give APS or Southwest Gas a call. I'm sure that they can provide you with that info. I imagine that they'd rather provide the service than risk someone blowing up the neighborhood. __________________ "No laws, no matter how rigidly enforced, can protect a person from their own stupidity." -Me- "Some people are like Slinkies..... They are not really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs." -Unknown- DAMMIT! -Jack Bauer-

10-28-2007, 12:45 AM	#3 (permalink)
LazyBoy Insane Location: Memphis Area	Its usually free here.....its easier than the headache they'd have to deal with if you hit something lol -Will __________________ Life is nothing, everything.....and something in between...

10-29-2007, 08:02 AM	#5 (permalink)
kurty[B] Sauce Puppet	It depends on the utility company. Every utility company I have delt with offers the service free. Like said before, they would rather mark things off first than deal with repairing a broken line, pipe, or blown up building. Give your utility company a call, ask what all they mark, ask if they'll mark off all lines, or if you need to call the cable company as well. Good luck. __________________ In the Absence of Information People Make Things Up.

10-29-2007, 08:00 AM	#4 (permalink)
cj22009 On the edge of control Location: Ga	Call Before you dig is a free service the util companies pay for the service

10-29-2007, 11:39 AM	#6 (permalink)
waltert Insane	here there's a hotline you can call: 1800 dig-tess. and its free. I HIGHLY reccomend getting your property marked if you're using power digging tools. there's nothing quite like the exhilaration that you get when you cut through a high pressure natural gas line with a ditch witch. lucky that nothing ignited it... its a lesson I'll probably never forget.