Friday, December 14, 2012  One of the things about undergound
utilities  Is that you can't see 1/4" through dirt.  So to know
where things are, so you don't put holes in things that are down
there, we call for line locates.  The utilities involved -who
don't want their lines broken and have to fix them- come out and
throw colored paint on the ground where the lines are: Orange
for COMM. Blue for WATER Green for SEWER Yellow for GAS The way
you're supposed to find them is to pothole where the paint is,
to be sure the operator knows where they are.  That being said,
the guys doing the potholing are supposed to stop when the FIND
the utility they're looking for. That doesn't happen when you
have three guys who give less than a f*ck.  You notice the
pothole stops 6" away from that 1 1/2" gas line? I was told "Ya
boss- that gas line is alor deeper than were digging." Except
that I know how deep gas lines are on this part of the base.
This one that stopped about 14" down- I was told "Ya boss that
phone line is in