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Message: <blockquote data-quote="excavator" data-source="post: 21494" data-attributes="member: 2336"><p>I have been in excavating business since 1973 and we have crossed every thing from TexasEastern oil lines and Fiberoptic lines from NY to Washington. There is no substitute to hand digging when there is any line to find. You are required by law to call for markout but that is NOT good enough. They make mistakes all the time. When you are working on residential sites and are with in 15 feet of curb there can be main lines such as gas,electri.water,phone.cable.sewer,storm sewer and can be ant where in 15 foot easment from curb. What many markout people forget to markout is the lines that come from the otherside of the street all the way across to your side to connect to the main under the curb or sidewalk. The first thing I need to do is locate myself the gas meter,water box,sewer,phone electric cable box from accross the street and see if it line up with my side of road. Another mistake the markout people do is locate and markout abanded lines such as old gas line and forget to mark out new gas lines. When ever I work on any building I go in the house / basement and scope out every utilitl line for myself. Dont trust anyone to tell you it is over there so dig here</p></blockquote><p></p>