What needs finding?
A one-call ticket marks the lines the member utilities own, and stops at the meter or the right-of-way. Everything past that point belongs to the property owner — and that is what a private locator is hired to find.
Water Line Locating
Find the water line before the excavator does.
Locating and marking potable service lines, irrigation mains, private fire loops, and well lines in APWA blue. Modern plastic water pipe carries no signal, so the job usually comes down to tracer wire, a sonde, acoustic tracing, or ground penetrating radar.
Gas Line Locating
The highest-stakes line on the property.
Gas line locating finds and marks buried natural gas and propane piping in APWA yellow before anyone digs. One-call covers the utility’s side up to the meter for free; the run past the meter to a house, shop, generator, or fire pit is the owner’s, and that is what private locating covers.
Electrical Line Locating
Live power is easy to find. Dark conduit is not.
Electrical line locating finds buried power on a site: the utility service up to the meter, and everything past it that a one-call ticket does not cover, from parking lot lighting to EV charger feeds and generator runs. Loaded live circuits trace in minutes, while de-energized, spare, and conduit-only runs need active tracing or ground penetrating radar.
Sewer & Septic Locating
Laterals, tanks, and drain fields with no map.
Sewer and septic locating finds the lateral running from a building out to the main or the tank, along with the septic tank, distribution box, and leach field. These lines are nearly always privately owned, rarely documented, and outside the scope of a one-call ticket in most jurisdictions.
Fiber & Telecom Locating
Glass carries no signal. Locate before you bore.
Fiber and telecom locating finds buried communications cable and conduit in APWA orange before excavation, boring, or coring. One-call marks carrier plant up to the demarcation point at the building; campus backbone, building-to-building links, and every owner-installed data run past that point are private and are what a locating company is hired to trace.
Irrigation Line Locating
Plastic pipe, no map, and a wire worth following.
Locating sprinkler mainlines, laterals, drip zones, valve boxes, and controller wiring in APWA purple. The pipe is non-conductive PVC or poly with no tracer wire, so the practical trace path is usually the solenoid valve wire running in the same trench.
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