What is Georgia One Call?

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Part 1Background

• About Georgia 811
• Georgia Dig Law
• Notification requirements
• Penalties
• Hours of operation
• Positive Response Information System

• Be sure to also view
• Part 2 Digging
• Utility markings
• Tolerance Zone
• White lining
• Protecting the marks

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Who is Georgia 811?

• Georgia 811 is a nonprofit corporation dedicated
  to preventing damage to Georgia's underground
  utilities and promoting public safety
• Established as a communication system, between
  our member utility companies with those who are
  planning to dig
• Such as fencing, irrigation, terracing
• This communication system provides Georgia 811
  members an opportunity to mark their underground
  facilities

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Georgia Dig Law

• Georgia law mandates that, before beginning any
  mechanized digging or excavation work, you must
  contact Georgia 811 at least 48 hours but no more
  than 10 working days in advance to have utility
  lines marked.
• Click here to view the Georgia Utility Facility
  Protection Act (GUFPA, Georgias Dig Law)
• Contacting Georgia 811
• Dial 811or 800-282-7411
• Log on to www.Georgia811.com

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What does Georgia 811 do?

• We are a communication system established as a
  single point of contact for excavating,
  demolition or working near overhead electric
  lines
• On Average Georgia 811 notifies at least 8
  utility companies for each locate request
  processed
• This process provides the Georgia 811utility
  members an opportunity to identify and locate or
  otherwise protect their facilities
• Member utility companies dispatch/locate
  technicians put paint and/or flags on the
  ground designating the specific utility in
  place

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• Georgia 811 serves the state of Georgia.
• Just dial 811 or create locate requests online
  after a short training session
• Click here to learn more about EDEN our online
  locate request creation tool
• contacting Megan Estes at mestes_at_ga811.com for
  more information about online locate request
  creation
• Georgia 811 notifies member facility
  owner/operators with service in the area that the
  excavation will take place
• This includes the notification of member facility
  owner/operators with overhead electric lines that
  will be within 10 feet of the excavators work
• The service is FREE!

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Overhead Notifications

• Your work can bring you close to overhead lines
• Remember that using cherry pickers and dump
  trucks and placing tall trees in landscape
  projects might require equipment that can get too
  close to overhead lines.
• Click here to learn more about Georgias Overhead
  Protection Act

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Notification Requirements

• Locate requests are required by Georgia law, when
  excavation proceeds using mechanized equipment
  (backhoes, bobcats, tillers, boring, etc.)
• Locate requests are NOT Required for hand digging
  (i.e., shovels, hand-held post hole diggers,
  picks), but suggested to keep you and your crews
  safe

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Information needed to complete your locate request

• Locate Requests are based on the address provided
• The address, city, state and county will all be
  required
• Nearest cross street is required
• Type of work (planting a tree, installing bushes,
  installing fencing, irrigation, etc.)

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PENALTIES

• Damaging utility lines while using mechanized
  equipment WITHOUT having a locate request may
  result in
• Fines up to 10,000 per occurrence from the
  Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC)
• Utilities are required to report probable
  violations of the Dig Law to the GA PSC
• Cost of repair of the utility facility
• Cost of loss of product (measured gas loss, water
  loss, etc.)
• Physical harm could result to you, your crew and
  others

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Locate Request Expiration

• A locate request expires 21 calendar days
  following the date of notice
• MUST call for a restake at least three business
  days prior to expiration if excavation is to
  continue

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Georgia 811 Hours of Operation

• How it affects when you are legal to dig.

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Georgia 811 Hours of
Operation

• Georgia 811 takes DAMAGE and EMERGENCY tickets 24
  hours a day
• Georgia 811 is open 365 days a year
• Emergencies and damages MUST be CALLED in when
  they occur!
• Notification to the affected utility/utilities is
  also required if damages occur
• Notify 911 when gas lines are hit
• Federal requirement

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Hours of Operation

• 700am - 430pm business hours
• Open until 600pm
• Calls or Locate Requests created online after
  430pm add an additional 24 hours to legal dig
  date
• Locate Requests may be created any time of day,
  but follow the hours above
• EDEN Excavation Digging Event Notification
• Click here for more info on EDEN

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Georgia 811Hours of Operation Explained

• EXAMPLE of legal dig timeframes
• Call Monday before 430pm and your legal dig date
  will be Thursday
• Call Monday after 430pm and your legal dig date
  will be Friday
• Normal Locate Requests are taken MondayFriday,
  7am - 6pm
• Please be aware that Georgia 811 does observe
  certain holidays as outlined in the Georgia Dig
  Law
• Click here for a list of legal holidays

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PRIS

• Positive Response Information System

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Positive Response Information System PRIS

• Positive Response is an automated system to help
  you track the status of your locate request
• Access PRIS
• Phone [phone]
• Web www.Georgia811.com or click here.
• Example of Web access is shown
• App search for GA811 or click here in the Google
  Play store
• Each utility company is required to provide a
  response indicating the action they have taken
• Click here for a list of PRIS codes and to learn
  more
• EACH EXCAVATOR is required by law to be familiar
  with the utility responses to each locate request.

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Take PRIS Response with you

• Print a copy of the Locate Request to take to
  your work site
• Use the app and have your locate request info
  with you everywhere

Scan the QR code with your Android device to
download the App. iOS coming soon!