NewsLeak » line location http://www.americanleakdetection.com/newsleak News for Professionals Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:26:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Locate underground utilities before digging http://www.americanleakdetection.com/newsleak/2009/04/locate-underground-utilities-before-digging/ http://www.americanleakdetection.com/newsleak/2009/04/locate-underground-utilities-before-digging/#comments Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:02:55 +0000 Josh Butler http://www.americanleakdetection.com/newsleak/?p=101 You may or may not know about the law requiring you call for utility locating before you do any excavation. The pictures below are a result of a farmer using a post hole digger without calling for a “locate” and he hit an underground, high-pressure cross country gas pipe.

The farmer was never found.  The gas explosion took out 2 homes.

Read more about ruptured gas lines.

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