The Joy of Bush Living?

But I am reminded of the other week, I was putting in a strainer post, at my block I looked at my maps for the underground power. Stared digging at about 1500 down i hit sand and tape. The underground power was 3m further over than my map showed. But that's why I was digging by hand not using the post hole borer I knew it was in the area. Plan Pothole Protect and Proceed. Plus would have been very embarrassing if it dit hit it as I work for the power company in WA and I recon I would have copped it down the yard for months:eek:

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I work for a civil contractor here in WA and our DBYD is actually pretty good and semi-accurate.

We have pretty strict guidelines and managerial KPI's relating to service strikes. I've know contractor's project manager sacked for a strike on a known service. We will also get taken off tender lists based on our performance on and around services.

The point being that we certainly take underground services very serious, but as JayBoRover wrote, it is sometimes near impossible to avoid when they are so old that they are either not marked at all or in a completely different location from where they are shown to be.

Believe me when I say we will not and cannot proceed if a service is shown on DBYD until we physically locate and visually verify its position.

Personal experience has however shown that the Telecommunication network is usually the worst ones for not being where they should be or actually not being shown and indicated at all.

Cheers,

Lou

Hmmm.....
I have had personal experience with this sort of thing.

On a project I was working on, they dug up an 11kV feeder with a backhoe. After the cable was inspected and repaired (luckily minimal damage), they continued trenching using hydronic excavation techniques. I then had to find out why the position of the 11kV feeder was not accurately on the site plan. The survey data came in. It was there. Some people just can't read plans.

What generally happens, for various reasons, the contractors on site may install these cables in a different location the plans recommend. This information sometimes does not get recorded. This information should then be marked up and returned for "As Building" purposes. Getting the documentation to reflect what has been built. Unfortunately, management regard this as an extra expense as the plant is up and running, therefore, job done. What it does tend to do is move that expense and more to the next project and make life harder for some along the way.

Mind you, I can't complain. It keeps me employed.

Hi Mick,

At the level the company I work for play, we are obligated to supply compulsory "As Constructed" drawings at the end of the contract, or you won't get your 2.5% of contract value "practical completion" bond back.

Unfortunately I'm also also convinced that these don't always make it back to official records in anything like acceptable timeframes...

Cheers,

Lou

We have a piece of equipment that is very efficient at finding both marked and unmarket services.
A John Deere backhoe;););););)
Andrew

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Originally Posted by LandyAndy

We have a piece of equipment that is very efficient at finding both marked and unmarket services.
A John Deere backhoe;););););)
Andrew

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You haven't had a Volvo excavator go missing lately have you ..............??? :o

One was found yesterday wedged under the Hay Street overpass on the Mitchell Freeway. :eek:


Couldn't see if it had "Shire of Williams" badging in the news footage on TV though. :p:p:p:p:p

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Originally Posted by BMKal

You haven't had a Volvo excavator go missing lately have you ..............??? :o

One was found yesterday wedged under the Hay Street overpass on the Mitchell Freeway. :eek:


Couldn't see if it had "Shire of Williams" badging in the news footage on TV though. :p:p:p:p:p

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Saw that in the paper this morning.Ours is bigger than that and would fit under that bridge easy.The tool who loaded it left the boom up:D
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Ours has been measured several times by the heavies on the float,it comes within the max height without a permit by an inch or so,try and tell a scallie that,they measure it every time!!!!
Andrew

Don't these cables all have fluoro orange tape laid over them. I'm pretty sure the trench to my house from the road had the services laid in it, part filled, orange tape laid over it and then filled.

I too contacted DBYD before building my new garage & driveway. They showed the underground power supply box cable on the R/H corner of our propety but it is on the left corner . The water supply coming in from the left when it is in the middle & the phone coming straight in to the house on the right but it comes in in the left runs across the front yard toto the L/H side of the house. So we hit the phone line & concrete around the electrical,:mad: & the water was OK .:D