{"id":172777,"date":"2019-05-28T09:55:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T14:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=172777"},"modified":"2019-05-28T09:58:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T14:58:40","slug":"stay-safe-call-before-you-dig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=172777","title":{"rendered":"Stay Safe, &#8220;Call before you dig&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-69087\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/NDonecall-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/NDonecall-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/NDonecall-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/NDonecall.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Fergus Falls, Minnesota, (OTPCO)\u00a0 Otter Tail Power Company reminds everybody that n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">ice weather frequently brings outdoor construction, yard work, and planting projects. During National Electrical Safety Month, Otter Tail Power Company reminds customers and neighbors that, before digging, they need to notify utilities that have lines or cables buried in the area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">Every digging project\u2014rural or urban, large or small\u2014requires a call to the national 811 One Call center at least 48 hours before any excavation begins. That means calling no later than Wednesday for a weekend project. Dial 811 and you\u2019ll be connected to your state\u2019s One Call center, which will notify the appropriate utility companies. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">Be prepared to give the location and start time of your project. The 811 call and the utility locates are free, and professional locators will mark the approximate locations of underground lines with flags and\/or paint. <span style=\"letter-spacing: .75pt;\">Damaging underground utility lines, though unintentional, can <\/span>cause needless outages to the utilities whose service and convenience you enjoy. Unsafe digging also can <span style=\"letter-spacing: .75pt;\">compromise community safety and disconnect people from critical services. <\/span>In addition to electricity, those services can include water and sewer, cable TV, telephone, and high-speed Internet. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">Each state has its own rules and regulations, but all projects that involve digging more than a foot deep require a call to 811. <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">\u201cUtility line depths can vary for a number of reasons, such as erosion, previous digging projects, and uneven surfaces so, even when digging only a few inches, the risk of striking an underground utility line exists,\u201d says Otter Tail Power Company\u2019s Safety Services Manager Greg Overland. \u201cAlways call before you plant trees or shrubs, establish a new garden, begin tiling a field, bury a water line, install that flag pole or mailbox, erect a fence, dig a trench, create a water pond, or dig footings for your new garage, deck, or patio. It\u2019s fast, it\u2019s easy, and it\u2019s the law.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">This news release is available on our website at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.otpco.com\/newsroom\/\">otpco.com\/Newsroom<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fergus Falls, Minnesota, (OTPCO)\u00a0 Otter Tail Power Company reminds everybody that nice weather frequently brings outdoor construction, yard work, and planting projects. During National Electrical Safety Month, Otter Tail Power Company reminds customers and neighbors that, before digging, they need to notify utilities that have lines or cables buried in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":69087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172779,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172777\/revisions\/172779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}