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Deere & Company Recognizes May as National Safe Digging Month Staff, 5/1/2008
MOLINE, Illinois – Warmer weather brings numerous landscaping and repair projects, and with them come digging jobs that damage utility lines, disrupt neighborhood service and lead to fines and repair costs. But homeowners and contractors have a resource to avoid the accidents — 811, the national call-before-you-dig number. More
Deep Sewer Installation Upgrades Infrastructure Edited by Christina Fisher - 04/28/2008
Sometimes the solution to a problem is so ideal that it can be applied repeatedly. This was the case when officials of the city of High Point, North Carolina, decided to replace an entire interceptor system instead of just one sanitary sewer. The old sewer was concrete, but they wanted pipe with a much longer service life.
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Competent-Person Training Vital To Effective Trenching By Mike Larson, Editor - 04/07/2008
Excavating and trenching are part of nearly every kind of construction project you can think of. Whether you’re laying sewer and water pipe, burying electrical service, digging footings for commercial buildings, putting in a box culvert for a road ...
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EUCA Installs 2008 Board of Directors and Officers Staff - 03/17/2008
San Ramon, Calif.— The Engineering & Utility Contractors Association (EUCA) installed their board of directors & officers on Saturday, January 26, 2008. 2008 EUCA board of directors and officers: President & Past Secretary/Treasurer: Rusty Hoseley, R & L Brosamer, Inc.; Secretary/Treasurer & Vice President/President-Elect, Andrew Vasconi, A.
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WUCA Offers Competent Trenching Class March 15 Staff - 03/10/2008
The Wisconsin Underground Contractors Association is holding competent person training for trenching and excavation at its office in Milwaukee on Saturday, March 15. The class trains supervisors, foremen and laborers about trenching regulations, hazards, soil testing, and safe work practices. OSHA regulations require trenching and excavating jobs to have at least one trench-competent person on ...
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MUCA Celebrates 30 Years By Ivy Chang - 03/03/2008
The annual fall meeting of the Minnesota Utility Contractors Association included a variety of seminars to help contractors understand business principles, legal rights and updates in the industry. In 2007, MUCA celebrated its 30 years of service to the underground utility industry and designed the conference to reflect its expanding role in contractors' daily operations.
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Contractor Works In Tight Spots By James McRay Efficiency Production, Inc. - 03/03/2008
Every contractor prefers installing underground utilities in wide open spaces where they can open cut and slope to required specifications. Rarely is this the case when repairing or installing in-town utilities. When sloping is not feasible, contractors turn to the old standbys like trench boxes or steel sheeting.
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Galmor's In The Oil And Gas Fields Staff - 03/03/2008
There is heavy activity these days in the oil and gas fields of the Texas Panhandle and Western Oklahoma. The crews of Galmor's, Inc. seem to be everywhere, performing a variety of services for energy companies. Based in Elk City, Oklahoma, Galmor's constructs well sites, performs facility work, builds tank batteries, constructs gathering lines and pipelines, and does site restoration when an o...
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