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system. Here's how The locators are wozkinga route

of tickets, but when they get an emergency request.

they typically have a short time to respond Because E

they are pulled away trom the routine or noimal locate ‘H-J

request, it can well be two to tour hours out oi their day n 
(depending on how far they must drive) That puts them

turther behind their schedules tor the ones who try to do

it right.

so you can see the trustration oi the excavator who now

has worlcers and equipment waiting tor paint or tlags on

re     lobecome  e O [E

at the locator, and sometimes rightly so. However, when

a locator gets pulled off their regular route oi routine .

ticket requests by }ual a couple ot talse emergency

requests, it trustrates a lot oi people I assure you that .

most of the locators I've tallced to over the past twenty

years are as trustrated as is the excavator waiting tor the

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what is the soluliun7 is there something that can be

done to reduce the number of false emergencies being 1‘8o0‘EN-I-ERGV (3683749) or 91 1-

called in?

some say there ought to be civil penalties associated with At Enterg Y: 5af9tY '5 0”"

talse emergencies Enfuxczmznl is certainly a possibility. number one priority. - ,

Already, there are states Iouklng to implement iines to _ (9;   Y

those who short cut the system Make It yours! ,;.° U \

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others still believe there needs to be a bigger push tor ' ‘V n» . "__4'§ -t

education and face-Io—fnc2 discussions to tind Common cps t l...— , _>

ground between the excavators who call these in. \ ~ _ 

the locators who are impacted and the utility owners . .. r f: ‘

themselves. . _ 1’ ..

rm told that in some sections ot the country, emergency " V. ‘ '—
requests (valid and invalid) make up appmximatzly 10%

ot the total volume of locate ticlcets on a daily basis and w ‘
that there is a pattern to talse emergency requests. Much _ p t

or the time, talse emergencies are predictably fmm the , A
same entity or region. lts }usl mostly the way they've I

learned to do business. .

lturther believe thatmost everybody wakes up every ‘ ’ ' 2 , , 

day and intends to do a good job. ldon't believe they ‘ M 1

want to create problems for everybody around them. it ‘ p y -
that's true. then maybe we do need to find ways to talk / ‘

to another about the impact we all have on each other. _ , _ . ‘
Let's work together to solve this problem. ' 1 !
And if we find someone who }ual doesn't want to get X _ *
along with anybody one who doesn't care about the .~

diiticulties they create tor everyborly else. let's work i

together to entorce a behavioral change.

That's why they still entorce speeding laws .. it's the -V s ‘ ». a
only way you can get some people to slow dawn . *"‘-“-1322:r:::;:;,:::.:::*:: ':,,:.-,;::::::*::.::"‘*"-  .
Fnlsc eltlergcnry locale rIque5!5 arc L'un('m‘Iy being addressed ,, , , W

by Mr Laiiisitma Pipeline sa/ety erifvrceiiievt c/forts. ' ' W E P " W E R L ‘ F E

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