Thanks for your interest!
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Originally Posted by ken0042
For example, I know exactly how my power line snakes from the house to the garage; but if I sold the house the new owner would have no way of knowing. (Other than a private locate as you mentioned.)
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It's probably a good practice when buying a new home to order a private locate to establish where the lines are for future informational purposes. Ideally everyone would know exactly what to do when buying a new home, but there's still a lot of future potential for education there.
But to ensure that private lines are registered as well as facility-owned lines would require legislation. At the moment, not even all major facilities are legally required to register. So there's probably an entirely separate discussion to be had about this. Should registration be legally mandated? And to what degree?
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I'm just thinking that with a name like "one call" it would be handy if that's the only call somebody has to make.
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That's a branding concern we are keenly aware of. Phrased one way, it is one call to inform a collection of registered facilities (over 700 members in Alberta, at last count!). I believe our company has been looking at the perception of this brand closely in the past year. I think it's even likely you might see an article about this on our facebook page in the future.
For the time being, our representatives are required to state that privately owned lines are not located, on every call, but it's not a perfect solution.
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Originally Posted by core_upt
To what depth should I be concerned about digging? I tore up some grass along my garage and want to bury some metal edging to contain raspberry bushes, maybe 8" deep? Worth a call?
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Definitely worth a call!
Keep in mind that it's possible a line was not laid to code, possible that years of landscaping have moved the ground closer to the line, and even possible that soil erosion and other factors have moved the position of the line over the years.
It's a free service and we are always happy to take a call, regardless of the depth you are digging to. Our criteria for placing a locate request is 'any kind of ground disturbance', so please, give us a call when doing any kind of digging!