Sometimes calling doesn稚 work.
I was getting ready to build a workshop. I wanted electrical and water. I called the call number when I got ready to run the water and electrical line. I told the person who answered the phone what I wanted and advised them the route from a existing building with a service panel to the new building would be marked with red flags. I was advised all existing under ground electrical would be marked with orange paint.
I got home that night and sure enough orange paint was sprayed around the existing building. Only one problem, no electrical line was marked where I remembered one. I called the 1-800 number again and told the person I did not think the electrical service was marked correctly.
I was rudely informed they knew how to locate and mark where electrical lines where. I asked for a number to call when the line was cut. He curtly advised he had never been asked that, but for me hold on and he would get the number for me.
Two days later the man with the trencher shows up. He checked the markings. I told him I thought they had missed one wire. We took a post hole digger and dug down in a couple spots looking for the wire.
He advised I must be wrong and started digging. He went about eight or ten foot and we turned out all the lights in neighborhood. I then called the number the yahoo gave me. He rudely asked me why I didn’t call before digging. I told him I called and requested the lines be marked and then called and informed them they had missed a line. The phone suddenly got awful quite. He advised hold on. A few minutes later he came back and advised the service crew was on the way.
When the service crew arrived they would not talk about the marking error and I never did receive that expensive bill that kept talking about if you don稚 call.