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PRACTICE DESCRIPTION: The project owner is responsible for providing the
ground disturber with accurate location information on the proposed
excavation area as well as the scope of the work. The information on the
excavation activity should include a street address and intersection, starting and
ending points, and a legal description. It should also include on which side of
the property the excavation is to take place, the distance of the excavation area
from the nearest intersection, and the latitude and longitude coordinates (in
one-call centre format) of the excavation area.
CURRENT PRACTICE:
Ÿ Project owner provides information to ground disturber that is referenced
to the call centre map.
Ÿ “Starting and ending points” tend to be descriptions and not co-ordinates;
however, a greater use of mapping technologies will facilitate this
information being provided.
Ÿ There is currently a variety of referencing methods for tying-in proposed
construction (C/L, P/L, etc.), which is facility owner specific and may or may
not be tied to universal survey control points.
5-6 AVAILABILITY OF LAND BASE TO THE PUBLIC
PRACTICE STATEMENT: The one-call centre should make the land base
available to the public.
PRACTICE DESCRIPTION: The public (ground disturbers, project owners,
homeowners, and so forth) should have viewing access to the land base,
wherever they are legally entitled to. This access is to allow them to retrieve
information about locates. Members of the one-call centre should also have
access to the land base as well as the database for the purpose of updating
member database information.
Best Practices Version 3.0