Utility Locating
Echo GPR has provided consistently high-quality Ground Penetrating Utility Scanning Services since 2000. Every job we complete is rooted in our mission statement:
“We are a team of Self-Motivated and Highly Respected Professionals that provide our customers with valued quality information to help them make smarter decisions.”
Before digging on any property, public and private, 811 One-Call must be called, no exceptions. When the utility companies provide this FREE service they will mark out all PUBLICLY owned utilities.
So who marks out any utilities that are privately owned? Utilities such as parking lot lights, any utility between your facility and the public main, or any other utility installed and maintained by anyone other than the service company needs to be located by a private locator.
Echo GPR Services provides private locates on any site. Prior to locating any existing drawings should be provided to our locators to help identify utilities that are in the area. From there we will begin to trace out any known utilities and begin to start identifying any unknown or abandoned utilities.
Echo GPR Utility Location
PRIVATE UTILITIES – UNDERGROUND UTILITY SCANNING
One of the most often overlooked procedures in a construction project is performing Private Utility Locates on a job site. One-Call is a requirement by law for locating utilities and certain assumptions about what they will and won’t locate can create gaps in utility locating coverage.
The goal of Echo GPR Services is to not only perform private utility locates on a job, but also to educate our customers about where public locates end and where we begin. Our in-field professionals will fill that gap in utility locating and also work to verify that the public utilities were done accurately.
GEOTECHNICAL – ENVIRONMENTAL SOIL BORINGS/SAMPLING
Field investigations require geological and/or environmental drilling and sampling to understand what is underground. Echo GPR Services professionals will conduct thorough site investigations and perform GPR utility locates to clear areas before drilling into the ground. GPR locates are excellent for identifying private utilities, underground storage tanks (USTs), waste oil tanks, and buried debris.
GPS MAPPING – CAD DRAWINGS
Most projects are appropriate for flag and paint utility locates. After performing private utility locates on your site Echo GPR Services can provide you with drawings in Google Earth kmz formats or CAD files to insert into your database. In addition, Echo GPR works closely with several Professional Land Surveyors in Kansas City that will provide you with CAD / GIS or other stamped drawings.
ONE CALL DOUBLE-CHECK – PUBLIC VERIFICATION
When Echo GPR Professionals are on your site, we will focus on locating your privately owned utilities, but we will also double-check the locates performed by One-Call Services. Our locates provide you extra assurances that not only are the private utilities located, but that a second set of eyes have verified public utility locates.
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Choose Echo GPR for Your Private Utility Locates
When you need reliable, accurate utility locate services in the Kansas City or Wichita areas, choose Echo GPR. We have over 20 years’ worth of experience when it comes to private utility locates, public utility verification, mapping, and soil sampling. Contact our team today to get started.
All Echo GPR technicians are OSHA-30 certified.
All Echo GPR technicians are GPR Certified Operators by the Concrete Sawing & Drilling Association.