What utilities are notified?
UDIG notifies the current members of the UDIG parent organization that have buried facilities in your excavation area. It the responsibility of each utility or member to mark and/or communicate this information to you within 2 business days. Practice in the UDIG territory has been for the locator to paint marks on the ground either to mark buried facilities or to note "No Gas", "No Power", etc. Marks will be made using the Standard APWA paint color for each respective utility. The paint colors are as follows:
Color Codes
For Marking Underground Utility Lines
Remember:
- Utilities have two business days after receiving notification to mark their buried facilities.
- Multiple line locators will come to the digging site. Just because you have seen one mark on the ground doesn't necessarily mean that all utilities have been located.
- If you are unsure if all utilities representatives have been to the site, CALL UDIG.
- All UDIG calls are tape recorded. The locate requests are transmitted by FAX to members with a FAX capability. Other members are contacted by phone. Montana One Call operates 7 days per week, 24 hours per day. Emergency locates are transmitted to members by phone as soon as they are received.
- UDIG members are required to provide Montana One Call with maps of their service territory. These are not detailed facility maps, but rather geographic maps showing boundaries of their underground facilities, with road names, streets etc.
- UDIG and Montana One Call do not actually perform locates. This responsibility rests with the utilities and members.
