Iowa One Call provides contractors, homeowners, and others who may be

excavating, digging or trenching with a single number to call for locating and marking underground facilities. The service is free, and so is the phone call.

811

Or

1-800-292-8989

Iowa law states that if you are digging, you must call Iowa One Call at least 48 hours in advance of digging in order to minimize the risk of damaging any type of underground facilities. Violation of the law (Iowa Code: Chapter 480) may result in steep fines or lawsuits for accidental property or utility line damage; or, in the worst-case scenario, someone's injury or death.

The marking flags indicate the type of utility to avoid when digging. The code colors are:

• Red: Electric power lines, cables, conduit and lighting cables
• Yellow: Gas, oil, steam, petroleum or gaseous material
• Orange: Communication, alarm or signal lines, cables or conduit
• Blue: Water, irrigation and slurry lines
• Green: Sewers and drain lines
• Pink: Temporary survey markings
• White: Proposed excavation
• Purple: Reclaimed water

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