Three Days of Utility Locates on a Mountain School Campus

The job. A mountain-town school district booked three days of underground utility locates across a school campus in September 2025. The district is a long way from the Front Range, so this was a multi-day booking with lodging: mobilize once, stay, and work the campus end to end.

Why a campus is different. 811 marks the utility companies' lines up to the meters. On a campus that leaves most of what is buried unmarked: the private water and sewer between buildings, the electrical feeds to each building, the communications runs, the irrigation, the site lighting. The drawings for a campus built and added to over decades are rarely complete, and every project the district runs digs through the gaps.

What we did. Electromagnetic locating for everything that carried a signal, ground-penetrating radar for what did not, and paint in APWA color code (the standard utility paint colors) at the approximate horizontal location. Whatever could not be located was documented in writing rather than left as a blank on the ground.

Why it is on this page. Districts, colleges and facility owners outside the Front Range sometimes assume a Front Range locator will not travel. We will, for a multi-day job, and booking the days together makes the trip make sense for both sides.

If you have a campus or a large site to mark, send the site and the window you need it in through the request form, or call or text (719) 800-4937.