Page 10 April 20, 2017 EL SEGUNDO HERALD Follow Us on Twitter @heraldpub Know What’s Below: Call 811 before Digging this Spring (BPT) - With the snow melted and the ground thawed, many eager homeowners and landscape professionals across the country will roll up their sleeves and reach for their shovels to start projects that require digging this spring. During the transition into “digging season,” Common Ground Alliance (CGA), the association dedicated to protecting underground utilities and the people who dig near them, reminds homeowners and professional diggers that calling 811 is the first step toward protecting you and your community from the risk of unintentionally damaging an underground line. Every digging project, no matter how large or small, warrants a free call to 811. Installing a mailbox or fence, building a deck and landscaping are all examples of digging projects that should only begin a few days after making a call to 811. Calling this number connects you to your local one-call utility notification center. According to data collected by CGA in a phone survey in March, millions of American homeowners will likely do DIY projects involving digging this year, but 44 percent of them do not plan to make a free call to 811 before digging. Extrapolated to the full population of U.S. homeowners, approximately 58.5 million people will dig this year without first calling 811. A utility line is damaged every six minutes in America because someone decided to dig without making a call to 811 to learn the approximate location of buried utilities in their area. Unintentionally striking one of these lines can result in inconvenient outages for entire neighborhoods, serious harm to yourself or your neighbors, and significant repair costs. As a result, CGA offers the following tips to make sure you complete your project safely and without any utility service interruptions, so you don’t become a statistic. Here’s How 811 Works 1. One free, simple phone call to 811 makes it easy for your local one-call center to notify all appropriate utility companies of your intent to dig. Call a few days prior to digging to ensure enough time for the approximate location of utility lines to be marked with flags or paint. 2. When you call 811, a representative from your local one-call center will ask for the location and description of your digging project. 3. Your local one-call center will notify affected utility companies, which will then send professional locators to the proposed dig site to mark the approximate location of your lines. 4. Only once all lines have been accurately marked should you roll up those sleeves and carefully dig around the marked areas. There are nearly 20 million miles of underground utility lines in the United States, which equates to more than a football field’s length of utilities for every person in the U.S. Your family depends on this buried infrastructure for your everyday needs, including electric, natural gas, water and sewer, cable TV, high-speed internet and landline telephone. With that much critical infrastructure underground, it’s important to know what’s below and call 811 before digging. To find out more information about 811 or the one-call utility notification center in your area, visit www.call811.com. • Jodie Infantino Income Property Specialist ∫ ∫ 310.704.1507 invest@jodiesrealestate.com BRE#01521084 Residential Expert Your Perfect 1031 Exchange Visit our website: heraldpublications.com El Segundo is Quacking Up!! Adopt Your Rubber Ducky Today From The Rotary Club of El Segundo For info please email: duckcentralelsegundo@gmail.com Be a Winner at Hometown Fair! CalBRE# 00942595 310-529-9922 shfowler17@gmail.com Support our AdvertiSing reAltorS They are ready and qualified to help you with all your Real Estate needs. gina hoffman COMING SOON! 425 WEST OAK AVENUE, EL SEGUNDO 5 Bedroom, 5.5 Bath. ~4,000 Sq. Ft. 8,100 Sq. Ft. Lot. De Bilt Modern Call Gina Hoffman for More Information quote for the week “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” - Pele gina hoffman 310. 864. 5347 ginahoffmanrealtor@gmail.com BRE No. 01905428
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