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2. Intended start date and time of excavation
3. Excavating by hand or machine
4. Type of excavation activity (boring, blasting, trenching, and so on)
5. For whom the excavation is being done
6. Purpose of the excavation (i.e., what will be installed or built?)
7. Excavation on public property
8. Excavation on private property and where (front, rear, or side)
9. Is the pre-dig site marked by the ground disturber?
10. Depth of the excavation
11. Is a site meeting requested?
12. Any additional remarks
1 Latitude and longitude coordinates or specific address of the dig site may be done
automatically by the GIS subsystem or determined by a computer assisted customer
representative. The dig site can be a point, an area or box, or a polygon. For a spatial
rectangle (maximum/minimum latitude/longitude), the dig site must be wholly within
the included area.
2-17 PRACTICES TO REDUCE OVER-NOTIFICATION
PRACTICE STATEMENT: The one-call centre uses practices that reduce the
number of transmitted notices to facility owners or operators to only that of
the desired area of notification of reported excavation sites.
PRACTICE DESCRIPTION: The one-call centre has the technology that allows
the facility owner or operator to determine its desired area of notification with
the use of polygons. To reduce over-notifications, this technology should:
Ÿ Enable the one-call centre to define the proposed excavation site buffer to
within approximately 250 metres (800 feet), wherever due diligence and
mapping accuracy allows, and
Ÿ Provide the facility owner or operator the ability to identify its desired area
of notification, including the member specified buffer zone to within
approximately 30 metres.
2-18 DISASTER RECOVERY
PRACTICE STATEMENT: The one-call centre develops, implements, and
maintains an effective disaster recovery plan, which enables the one-call
centre's operations to continue in the event of a disaster.