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Updated over 5 years ago on .

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Ryan Heywood
  • St. Helena, CA
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Call 811 before doing any digging

Ryan Heywood
  • St. Helena, CA
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Our next door neighbor is getting her fence replaced. While digging the handyman managed to hit a gas line on the city side of the meter. Needless to say our local fire department and utility have had to show up, and the important lesson learned was that if he had called 811 (a free service that marks utility lines buried underground) they would have marked everything for him. Now he’s watching his profit margin turn into an emergency repair bill, and can count himself lucky no one got hurt.

Just thought I’d pass this little tidbit along in the hopes it might save a diy’er or aspiring contractor a future headache.