Private Utility Locating

Public one-call services (BC 1 Call, Utility Safety Partners, Yukon locate services) generally mark buried utilities only up to the utility provider's demarcation point — the meter, the property line, or the service entrance. Beyond that point, privately owned lines like site electrical, gas runs to buildings and tanks, water and sewer services, irrigation, communications and process piping are the owner's responsibility. Those are the lines PCI Surveys finds.

Our locators use Vivax-Metrotech electromagnetic equipment, ground-penetrating radar, sondes and sewer cameras to trace, identify and mark private underground utilities on commercial, industrial, institutional and residential properties across BC, Alberta and the Yukon — before excavation, drilling, trenching or any ground disturbance.

What PCI Performs

• Private electrical, gas and water line locating
• Sanitary, storm, septic and drainage locating
• Communications, fibre and tracer-wire locating
• Irrigation system locating
• Sonde and sewer-camera tracing of non-conductive lines
• Conduit and duct-bank locating
• Unknown utility and pre-excavation investigations
• Utility mapping and documentation
• Locate support for hydrovac and drilling programs

Deliverables

• Field markings (paint, flags, stakes) in APWA colour code
• Locate reports with photos and depths where obtainable
• Sketches and utility maps
• Georeferenced utility mapping when combined with survey

PCI In The Field

Real crews. Real sites.