PRECorp - Line Location

What is the Risk?

You could be responsible for death, injury, multiple lawsuits and personal bankruptcy. You could kill or injure not only yourself, but bystanders and nearby property owners.

The Federal Environmental Protection Agency could hold you personally responsible for environmental cleanup efforts with expenses running into the millions of dollars. It is well worth the effort to call before you dig.

about the scheduled time, location, and nature of your activity and the name
of anycontractor involved in the project. The owners of the underground facilities near the proposed excavation or construction activity will then visit the site and mark the location of their lines as necessary with color coded paint. Wyoming law requires underground facility owners to respond in two business days or less.

After the locate, you may proceed with the excavation. But remember, if you know there are facilities in the area of your dig, you may need to take special care not to damage any lines or pipes and this may sometimes require hand digging as a precaution.

I'm only going to do a little gardening.

This isn't just for big construction jobs. A man repairing a fence post in his garden severed his telephone line but had not called for a locate. Guess who paid for the line?

How much does it cost?

Everything is free - the calls and the locates. They are too important not to be.

What is the problem?

There are a lot of important things buried in Wyoming - TV cables, electric water, sewer, telephone and gas lines, and pipelines carrying crude oil, petroleum products and natural gas. They are buried everywhere - in cities and towns, in the country, along roads, and sometimes far away from the beaten path.

Even when you inspect the ground carefully, these buried facilities seldom give any clue as to their location. Because of this, there might be a nasty surprise waiting for people doing excavations. Whether you are adding a room to your house, building a road, digging a trench or doing anything else that requires digging, you run the risk of hitting somebody's buried facility.

What should I do?

At least two business days before you intend to dig you should call the toll free number listed above (not the emergency number) and request the location of all underground facilities in the area of the construction or excavation. Be prepared with information

Not an Emergency? Call 1-800-849-2476
48 Hours Before You Dig!

Emergency? Call 1-800-442-3630