Oakwood is our get of our town route for football too. My office is in south Ames and live north of Ames. We park at the office and then use Oakwood to get to South Dakota to get around Ames.
Congratulations to the following city of Ames employees
- Thread starter mynameisjonas
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They said phase 1 would be done labor day weekend. But then phase 2 would take until winter. So close Oakwood for all of football season.
My son lives on White Oak off Oakwood. Thankfully he can work from home if he chooses. So many zig zags....
Next time you see a city truck put a 811( ?) tag on it . Call before you dig.
It makes no difference. They very carefully trenched and excavated for a big project near us, then a worker cut the EXPOSED fiber line. Sometimes things just go wrong, and other times… you can’t fix stupid.
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My dads experience with large city road projects have had the same thing happen multiple times in the same project. The utility shares the location of their lines, their blue prints if you will. Say CenturyLink plans say their fiber or line is 10 feet deep. At six feet the line is cut. Next time it’s cut at four feet.
Who is at fault?
Just because their plans say that, you still have to have utility locates prior to digging anything to comply with the law. And if there is ever any doubt about depth, potholing can take place to find the utility before digging.
That being said, utility companies have some of the worst maps ever. General location and approximate depths are about all they ever have because so little of that ever gets as-built information. Half the time, you're lucky if it's even shown on the right property. Designers do their best to get locates during design, but that process is notoriously a crapshoot.
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