Update: That buried conduit job in Portland went sideways on me

I was digging a run for a new fiber drop near Hawthorne Bridge and hit a gas line that wasn't marked. Had to call it in, wait 2 hours for the utility crew, and patch the whole trench by hand. Anyone else ever deal with unmarked lines that slow down a simple install?

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clairer794mo ago

We had a similar thing happen on a driveway job near Gresham.

john_singh4mo ago

@clairer79 same here, I always end up tripping over my own tools on those jobs.

riley_price2mo ago

Used to figure this was just bad luck, but that Portland job taught me a hard lesson about digging blind. Now I take photos of the whole dig path before I break ground just to have proof against what the locators missed. Keeps the utility crews honest and saves me from re-patching messes like that.

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