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Reducing NC one call's false ticketing
Robert A. Popoff
GeoForce
(A subsidiary of Lost Time Control West, Inc.)
12446 Willingdon Road
Huntersville, NC 28078
Paper
Definitions
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Excavation
An operation for the purpose of the movement or removal of earth, rock, or other
materials in or on the ground by use of equipment operated by means of mechanical
power and/or an operation by which a structure or mass of material is wrecked, razed,
moved, or removed by means of any tools, equipment, or discharge of explosives.
This term includes road construction, but does not include road maintenance activities
within rights-of-way of a highway, including those maintenance activities defined by
the rules and regulations of the North Carolina Department of Transportation.
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Person
A corporation, individual, partnership, company, association, or any combination of
individuals or organizations doing business as a unit; any subdivision instrumentality
of the State, and including any officer, agent, trustee, receiver, assignee, lessee, or
personal representative of any of the above entities.
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Association
A non-profit organization sponsored by the utility owners that will provide receipt of
notification of excavation operations in a defined geographical area, and will maintain
the records of the notification.
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Damage
Term used to describe substantial weakening of structural or lateral support of an
underground utility, penetration or destruction of protective coating, housing, or other
protective device of an underground utility, and the partial or complete severance of
an underground utility.
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Underground Utility
Any underground line, system, or facility used for the producing, storing, conveying,
transmitting, or distributing communications or telecommunications, electricity, gas,
petroleum or petroleum products, coal slurry, hazardous liquids, water under pressure,
steam, or sanitary sewage, but not including traffic signal control cables and vehicle
detection cables of the North Carolina Department of Transportation.
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Member
The Utilities, Coops and Municipalities that support NC One Call and have
underground facilities. NC One Call members include: AT&T, Utiliquest, Colonial
Pipeline, Duke Energy, Prestige Cable, MCI, Alltel, NC Natural Gas, Plantation
Pipeline, Piedmont Natural Gas, ICG Telecom Group, PSNC Energy, BellSouth,
Time Warner, Williams Pipeline, Sprint, UUL, Worldcom Network Services, Cresent
EMC, TCG of the Carolinas, VMAC, ICX Communications, Qwest, CP&L, and local
utilities.
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Overlay Grid
A non-standard area grid system employed by NC One Call. This grid does not
necessarily correspond with any grid system maintained by association members.
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Gridlet
A subset of the Overlay grid designed to improve the accuracy of member facility
locates and subsequent locate ticketing.
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Offset
The distance which member companies measure off from it's assumed underground
facilities to make certain the difference in positional accuracy from the members and
NC One Call is compensated for when tagging grids.
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Ticket
A document generated by NC One Call notifying a member utility of excavation near
a member utility's facilities.
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Marking, Painting or Coloring
The result of a ticket, indicating where underground facilities are located by marking,
painting, or coloring ground, vegetation, and/or road surfaces. The color of the paint
indicates what type of facilities are underground such as Gas, Water, Electric, Cable,
and Telecom.
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