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Episode 13: Locating – Trust But Verify

Discover locators on the job who are passionate about the work they do to keep their crews and communities safe while undertaking the important work of locating and verifying the position of underground utilities. Locators are tasked with discovering problems, BEFORE they become much bigger problems during excavation. “Trust in good locator training programs, but verify with strong audit programs.”

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Episode 10: The Race to 5G

Busy Streets, pedestrians everywhere, crowded right of ways, abandoned utilities, and endless fiber installs with little room underground to spare. This is most likely how any excavator digging in Chicago would describe the Race to 5G in 2018, and with this work, its most important to properly DESIGN an EXECUTE efficiently. Watch the process it takes from engineering to construction, to install small cell node panels on light poles so that people can have 5G internet connection.

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Episode 9: Candid Cameras

An often overlooked, but critical part of damage prevention is cross bore mitigation. We’ll take you on a journey with the crews of Pipe View America and Blood Hound Underground, honest and unscripted, as they dive into the critically important work behind sewer line inspections.

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Episode 8: State of the Union

Planet Underground TV’s Episode 8: State of the Union features a select group of interviews and table discussions from The Roundtable at Planet Underground, Manteno IL December 2017.

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Episode 7: The American Locator

Planet Underground TV’s Episode 7 features three veteran locators working in St. Paul, MN. Xcel Energy’s Frank Mariano is one of only several hundred utility-employed locators in the U.S. that are assigned to protect buried infrastructure in urban cores. Jon Moulton and Joshua Richard of Q3 Contracting team up to demonstrate the return on investment that professional locators give utility contractors as they work in older, crowded and challenging below ground environments.

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Overlays

BREAKING NEWS:

Contractor hits same 4-inch water line twice in 3 days

Mis-located gas line leads to mass evacuations

Severed fiber line cuts internet for thousands

Crew hit gas line in Bethlehem, PA

REAL WORLD INSIGHT FOR LOCATING, EXCAVATING AND BEYOND

February 21, 2019

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