UNDERGROUND UTILITY LOCATING SERVICES Safe Site offers complete locating services for privately owned facilities beyond what the One Call locate responders will mark. This might include electric, gas, or water lines beyond the utility meter, communications lines between buildings, wiring to irrigation valves, overhead lights, landscape lighting, sanitary sewer, storm drain lines, underground storage tanks, and many other buried lines or structures. Services can include designating (with paint), exposing, and / or mapping of these facilities. What is a private utility? Private utilities may include but are not limited to: Gas, Water, Electric, Sewer, communication, underground storage tanks Etc. Safe Site Utility Services is a one-stop-shop for your all of your utility location needs. Safe Site can locate and mark all underground utilities & Structures. Private utilities may include but are not limited to: Parking lot or site lights Fire mains Natural gas, or propane lines to pool heaters, BBQs or secondary buildings Nitrogen, oxygen, or other industrial gas lines Sewer laterals Septic tanks and systems Fuel tanks and systems Water tanks as systems Chilled water lines Steam lines Electrical, communication, fire alarm, and special systems lines connecting secondary buildings Cellular sites Storm, roof, or industrial drains Irrigation systems What is a public utility? Public utilities are usually maintained up to a demarcation point such as a meter, tap, junction box, transformer, valve, etc. Utility owners (811 One Call Members) receiving locate requests will typically locate only to those demarcation points. Excavators should contact a private utility locator to locate and mark the private utilities in the area. “Traditional” underground utility locating is accomplished primarily through electromagnetic locating methods where the target facilities are metallic or are placed with a metallic “tracer wire”. The equipment utilized consists of two instruments. A signal is applied to the target conductor with the transmitter and then the receiver is used to locate the electromagnetic field that travels along the pipe or cable. This is the primary method used in our utility locating services with the exception of finding unlocatable facilities where Safe Site experts will utilize more specialized equipment to locate these facilities.
