Common Ground Alliance

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Common Ground Alliance

• Member Driven Association
• Dedicated to ensuring
• Public safety
• Environmental protection
• Integrity of services by promoting
• damage prevention practices
• Reduce damages to all underground facilities in
  North America and Canada through shared
  responsibility among all stakeholders

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Promoting a Spirit of
Shared Responsibility
Welcomes all stakeholders who would like to be
part of the identification and promotion of Best
Practices that lead to a reduction in damages.
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Background

• Continuation of the damage prevention efforts
  embodied by the Common Ground Study (ten year
  anniversary in 2009)
• Collaborative work of 160 industry professionals
• Optimal forum where stakeholders
• Share information
• Share perspectives
• Work together in all aspects
  of damage prevention

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CGA Purpose

• Prevent and reduce damages to our
• underground infrastructure by
• Fostering a sense of shared responsibility
• Supporting research/development/new technologies
• Developing and conducting public
• awareness and education programs
• Identifying and disseminating
• stakeholder Best Practices
• Serving as a clearinghouse and repository for
• Damage data collection
• Analysis and Dissemination

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CGA Structure

• Business and activities managed
• by a volunteer Board of Directors
• Each stakeholder group is represented by a
  Director on the CGA Board
• (15 Board members)

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CGA Structure

• Six Working Committees
• Best Practices
• Research and Development
• Data Reporting and Evaluation
• Educational Programs
• Marketing, Membership and Communications
• One-Call Systems International
• Each committees work supports the CGA
• mission in a unique, yet critical manner
• Committee members are employees
• of a stakeholder organization

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The Ground Work for Success
OneVoice.OneVision.OneIowa
Help us shape the way Iowa grows.
Promoting public safety through damage prevention
and shared responsibility
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WHO WE ARE

• Common Ground Iowa (CGI) is a regional partner
  of the Common Ground Alliance (CGA). The CGI's
  purpose is to promote public safety through
  damage prevention and shared responsibility,
  while utilizing the CGAs Best Practices
  for advancing underground utility safety across
  Iowa. The CGI is a not-for-profit
  organization.

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MEMBERSHIP STRENGTH IN NUMBERS

• "The strength of the Common
• Ground Iowa (CGI) association
• is in the organization's broad
• representation of all stakeholders."

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MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS

• Being a member of the CGI will provide access to
  a wealth of expertise from the many different
  stakeholder perspectives that exist in the
  organization.

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MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS

• Major benefits of the CGI are
• Model and articulate the CGA Best Practices
• Exchange information among stakeholders
• Help promote subsurface facility awareness
• Demonstrate your commitment to damage prevention
• Increase your understanding of
• damage prevention issues
• Influence the work being done by CGA committees
• Ensure your stakeholder group is well represented
• Gain exposure to new technologies
• in research and development

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BEST PRACTICES

• Common Ground Iowa (CGI) strongly supports and
  recommends the national CGA Best Practices.
  This collection of Best Practices is intended
  to be shared among stakeholders involved with and
  dependent upon, the safe and reliable operation,
  maintenance, construction, and protection of
  underground facilities.

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BEST PRACTICES

• The CGA Best Practices contain validated
  experiences gained that can be further examined
  and evaluated for possible consideration and
  incorporation into state and private stakeholder
  underground facility damage prevention programs.

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BEST PRACTICES

• The CGAs Best Practices are
• divided into eight (8) chapters
• Planning and Design Best Practices
• One Call Center Best Practices
• Location and Marking Best Practices
• Excavation Best Practices
• Mapping Best Practices
• Compliance Best Practices
• Public Education Best Practices
• Reporting and Evaluation Best Practices

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MISSION STATEMENT

• The mission of the CGI
• To promote public safety through damage
  prevention and shared responsibility, while
  utilizing the Common Ground Alliances Best
  Practices for advancing underground utility
  safety across the State of Iowa.

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CGI Executive Team Members
Chairperson Mike Broshous Consolidated Utility
Services, Inc. Vice Chairperson Cynthia
Munyon Iowa Utilities Board Secretary LuAnn
Allar Alliant Energy Treasurer Josh
Doughan Snyder and Associates, Inc.
Membership Director John Barber Snyder and
Associates, Inc. Program/Meeting Director Sally
Fossum Alliance Pipeline Website
Coordinator Pete Vielhaber Qwest Communications
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WHATS NEXT

• CGI General Membership Meeting
• Thursday March 5, 2009
• 1000AM to 100PM
• Clear Lake Public Library
• Clear Lake, Iowa
• CGI General Membership Meeting
• Thursday June 4, 2009
• 1000AM to 100PM
• Honey Creek Resort
• Lake Rathbun, Iowa

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www.commongroundiowa.com