Digging Damage to Buried Utility Lines Continues to Drop

摘要

Incidents of damage to buried utility lines during excavation work dropped by about 5% last year compared to 2012, according to the 2013 Damage Implementation Reporting Tool Report, released this month by the Common Ground Alliance. There were 335,000 excavation-damage incidents last year compared to 675,000 in 2004, estimates CGA's tenth annual DIRT Report. In addition, while construction spending increased by 7.4% from 2012 to 2013, there were 15,000 fewer incidents. "Locate utilities requests" made via toll-free 811 calls, which are directed to local one-call centers representing all utilities, get some of the credit, says CGA.