{"id":27417,"date":"2021-08-11T14:39:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T18:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bgjwsc.org\/?p=27417"},"modified":"2021-08-11T14:39:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T18:39:40","slug":"811-day-call-before-you-dig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goldenisleslepc.org\/?p=27417","title":{"rendered":"811 Day &#8211; Call before you dig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"page3R_mcid23\" class=\"markedContent\"><strong> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">August 11 is 8\/11 on the calendar, a natural reminder for <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">people to call 811.<\/span><\/strong><br role=\"presentation\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"page1R_mcid17\" class=\"markedContent\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Striking a single underground utility line can cause injury, repair costs, fines and <\/span><br role=\"presentation\" \/><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">inconvenient outages. Every digging project, no matter how large or small, warrants a call to 811. It\u2019s <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">easy, and it\u2019s free! <span id=\"page1R_mcid23\" class=\"markedContent\">Calling 811 before digging is the single easiest step you can take toward reducing the chance of causing damage to buried utilities.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"page3R_mcid23\" class=\"markedContent\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Georgia <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Law<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">states that anyone digging with mechanized<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">equipment <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">has<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">to c<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">ontact <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">before digging, but it is the safe<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">and smart <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">thing to<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">do for any project involving digging. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"page3R_mcid23\" class=\"markedContent\"><\/span><span id=\"page3R_mcid23\" class=\"markedContent\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Contact Georgia 811 at least <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">3<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"> business days prior to <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">digging so that member utility companies can be notified of <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">the intent to dig so that they are able to mark their lines.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"page3R_mcid23\" class=\"markedContent\"><\/span><span id=\"page3R_mcid23\" class=\"markedContent\"><strong><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Call or Click!!!<\/span><\/strong><br role=\"presentation\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span id=\"page3R_mcid23\" class=\"markedContent\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Call 811<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">or dial 800-282-7411<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span id=\"page3R_mcid23\" class=\"markedContent\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Excavators can be trained and be issued a password<\/span><br role=\"presentation\" \/><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">for online <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">ticket <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">creation<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span id=\"page3R_mcid23\" class=\"markedContent\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Homeowners can apply for a <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">ticket <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">using<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">eTicket on<\/span><br role=\"presentation\" \/><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">www.Georgia811.com<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldenisleslepc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/811day.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27418\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goldenisleslepc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/811day-300x161.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 11 is 8\/11 on the calendar, a natural reminder for people to call 811. Striking a single underground utility line can cause injury, repair costs, fines and inconvenient outages. Every digging project, no matter how large or small, warrants a call to 811. It\u2019s easy, and it\u2019s free! Calling 811 before digging is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenisleslepc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenisleslepc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenisleslepc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenisleslepc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenisleslepc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenisleslepc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenisleslepc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenisleslepc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenisleslepc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}