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Title: What is Georgia One Call?


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Part 1Background
  • About Georgia 811
  • Georgia Dig Law
  • Notification requirements
  • Penalties
  • Hours of operation
  • Positive Response Information System
  • Be sure to also view
  • Part 2 Digging
  • Utility markings
  • Tolerance Zone
  • White lining
  • Protecting the marks

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Who is Georgia 811?
  • Georgia 811 is a nonprofit corporation dedicated
    to preventing damage to Georgia's underground
    utilities and promoting public safety
  • Established as a communication system, between
    our member utility companies with those who are
    planning to dig
  • Such as fencing, irrigation, terracing
  • This communication system provides Georgia 811
    members an opportunity to mark their underground
    facilities

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Georgia Dig Law
  • Georgia law mandates that, before beginning any
    mechanized digging or excavation work, you must
    contact Georgia 811 at least 48 hours but no more
    than 10 working days in advance to have utility
    lines marked.
  • Click here to view the Georgia Utility Facility
    Protection Act (GUFPA, Georgias Dig Law)
  • Contacting Georgia 811
  • Dial 811or 800-282-7411
  • Log on to www.Georgia811.com

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What does Georgia 811 do?
  • We are a communication system established as a
    single point of contact for excavating,
    demolition or working near overhead electric
    lines
  • On Average Georgia 811 notifies at least 8
    utility companies for each locate request
    processed
  • This process provides the Georgia 811utility
    members an opportunity to identify and locate or
    otherwise protect their facilities
  • Member utility companies dispatch/locate
    technicians put paint and/or flags on the
    ground designating the specific utility in
    place

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  • Georgia 811 serves the state of Georgia.
  • Just dial 811 or create locate requests online
    after a short training session
  • Click here to learn more about EDEN our online
    locate request creation tool
  • contacting Megan Estes at mestes_at_ga811.com for
    more information about online locate request
    creation
  • Georgia 811 notifies member facility
    owner/operators with service in the area that the
    excavation will take place
  • This includes the notification of member facility
    owner/operators with overhead electric lines that
    will be within 10 feet of the excavators work
  • The service is FREE!

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Overhead Notifications
  • Your work can bring you close to overhead lines
  • Remember that using cherry pickers and dump
    trucks and placing tall trees in landscape
    projects might require equipment that can get too
    close to overhead lines.
  • Click here to learn more about Georgias Overhead
    Protection Act

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Notification Requirements
  • Locate requests are required by Georgia law, when
    excavation proceeds using mechanized equipment
    (backhoes, bobcats, tillers, boring, etc.)
  • Locate requests are NOT Required for hand digging
    (i.e., shovels, hand-held post hole diggers,
    picks), but suggested to keep you and your crews
    safe

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Information needed to complete your locate request
  • Locate Requests are based on the address provided
  • The address, city, state and county will all be
    required
  • Nearest cross street is required
  • Type of work (planting a tree, installing bushes,
    installing fencing, irrigation, etc.)

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PENALTIES
  • Damaging utility lines while using mechanized
    equipment WITHOUT having a locate request may
    result in
  • Fines up to 10,000 per occurrence from the
    Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC)
  • Utilities are required to report probable
    violations of the Dig Law to the GA PSC
  • Cost of repair of the utility facility
  • Cost of loss of product (measured gas loss, water
    loss, etc.)
  • Physical harm could result to you, your crew and
    others

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Locate Request Expiration
  • A locate request expires 21 calendar days
    following the date of notice
  • MUST call for a restake at least three business
    days prior to expiration if excavation is to
    continue

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Georgia 811 Hours of Operation
  • How it affects when you are legal to dig.

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Georgia 811 Hours of
Operation
  • Georgia 811 takes DAMAGE and EMERGENCY tickets 24
    hours a day
  • Georgia 811 is open 365 days a year
  • Emergencies and damages MUST be CALLED in when
    they occur!
  • Notification to the affected utility/utilities is
    also required if damages occur
  • Notify 911 when gas lines are hit
  • Federal requirement

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Hours of Operation
  • 700am - 430pm business hours
  • Open until 600pm
  • Calls or Locate Requests created online after
    430pm add an additional 24 hours to legal dig
    date
  • Locate Requests may be created any time of day,
    but follow the hours above
  • EDEN Excavation Digging Event Notification
  • Click here for more info on EDEN

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Georgia 811Hours of Operation Explained
  • EXAMPLE of legal dig timeframes
  • Call Monday before 430pm and your legal dig date
    will be Thursday
  • Call Monday after 430pm and your legal dig date
    will be Friday
  • Normal Locate Requests are taken MondayFriday,
    7am - 6pm
  • Please be aware that Georgia 811 does observe
    certain holidays as outlined in the Georgia Dig
    Law
  • Click here for a list of legal holidays

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PRIS
  • Positive Response Information System

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Positive Response Information System PRIS
  • Positive Response is an automated system to help
    you track the status of your locate request
  • Access PRIS
  • Phone 1-888-670-2902
  • Web www.Georgia811.com or click here.
  • Example of Web access is shown
  • App search for GA811 or click here in the Google
    Play store
  • Each utility company is required to provide a
    response indicating the action they have taken
  • Click here for a list of PRIS codes and to learn
    more
  • EACH EXCAVATOR is required by law to be familiar
    with the utility responses to each locate request.

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Take PRIS Response with you
  • Print a copy of the Locate Request to take to
    your work site
  • Use the app and have your locate request info
    with you everywhere

Scan the QR code with your Android device to
download the App. iOS coming soon!
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