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It is estimated that there are over 13 million miles of buried utilities in the United States alone – over 500 times the circumference of the earth and that number is only increasing. A growing number of excavations for inspection, maintenance, and construction combined with a lack of records for buried features and poor regulation, greatly increases the risk of contacting such utilities. The congressional Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, TEA 21, Title VII, Subtitle C, SEC. 87301, states that, “…unintentional damage to underground facilities during excavation is a significant cause of disruptions in telecommunications, water supply, electric power, and other vital public services, such as hospital and air traffic control operations, and is a leading cause of natural gas and hazardous liquid pipeline accidents.”
By taking advantage of UIT’s proprietary hardware such as GPR and EMI, these costly and often deadly accidents can easily be prevented. UIT is able to generate information for its clients pinpointing the locations of subsurface features with sub-centimeter accuracy, so you know exactly what to expect when you break ground.