Re: This is why you call for locates!
Re: This is why you call for locates!
That's the truth!
In our utility, the locate team was headed up by a rather pompous fellow who claimed pin-point accuracy 100% of the time. When one of my projects required the installation of a new cable at one of our generating stations that would cross 3 existing cables (two telephone cables and a critical control cable) Mr. Perfect supervised the locate himself. The first scoop of the backhoe, well away from the marked area, came up with BOTH telephone cables but fortunately missed the control cable. Biting into the control cable would have taken the power exports to Ontario off-line. Needless to say, after enduring Mr. Perfect's rants for years, I couldn't stop laughing.
Ontario didn't need that power anyway
Re: This is why you call for locates!
Locates are not always 100% either.
That's the truth!
In our utility, the locate team was headed up by a rather pompous fellow who claimed pin-point accuracy 100% of the time. When one of my projects required the installation of a new cable at one of our generating stations that would cross 3 existing cables (two telephone cables and a critical control cable) Mr. Perfect supervised the locate himself. The first scoop of the backhoe, well away from the marked area, came up with BOTH telephone cables but fortunately missed the control cable. Biting into the control cable would have taken the power exports to Ontario off-line. Needless to say, after enduring Mr. Perfect's rants for years, I couldn't stop laughing.
Ontario didn't need that power anyway