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You’ve got it! Alaska Statute 42.30.400 requires excavators to call for utility locates before digging. A damaged gas line disrupts your project and can cost more than $1,000. A damaged gas line can cause severe personal injury and property damage. Call 811 two days before digging to have utilities come to your property for FREE to mark their underground lines on your property. It’s not worth the risk – call 811 for locates. Every dig, every time.

Close! But that’s not the only reason. Alaska Statute 42.30.400 requires excavators to call for utility locates before digging.

Close! But that’s not the only reason. A damaged gas line disrupts your project and can cost more than $1,000. A damaged gas line can cause severe personal injury and property damage.

Close! But that’s not the only reason. Call 811 two days before digging to have utilities come to your property for FREE to mark their underground lines on your property.

You’ve got it! Alaska Statute 42.30.400 requires excavators to call for utility locates before digging. A damaged gas line disrupts your project and can cost more than $1,000. A damaged gas line can cause severe personal injury and property damage. Call 811 two days before digging to have utilities come to your property for FREE to mark their underground lines on your property. It’s not worth the risk – call 811 for locates. Every dig, every time.

Incorrect. Are you digging or hiring someone to dig? Congrats, you’re an excavator!

Not quite! Yes, you’re excavating when you use mechanized excavation equipment. You’re also excavating when you drive a stake or rebar into the ground, remove or install a mailbox, fence post, or deck post and when you plant or remove a tree.

Correct! Damage to the pressure boundary, damage to the protective coating, and weakening of structural or lateral support are all types of excavation damage to buried gas lines.

Close! But that’s not the only kind of damage. Damage to the pressure boundary, damage to the protective coating, and weakening of structural or lateral support are all types of excavation damage to buried gas lines.

Well done! This is the most accurate statement.

Incorrect. Locates are required for ANY digging project no matter the time of year.

Close! While this statement is true, this is not the most accurate statement.

Incorrect. While options B and C are accurate, A is incorrect. Locates are always required for any digging project no matter the time of year.