Anyone who will be digging or excavating using mechanized equipment — commercial contractors, road maintenance crews, telephone pole installers, fence builders, landscape companies or homeowners who may be digging a drainage ditch, installing a fence or building an addition — can make one telephone call to give notice of their plans to dig in a specific area.
The nationwide Call Before You Dig program acts as a clearinghouse to inform the owners and operators of underground pipelines when work is going to be performed above ground, so that they can go out and mark their facilities, usually within 48 or 72 hours.
Always call 811 before you dig.