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Council discusses improving utility mapping after locating error that caused outage
Summary
Council and staff said the town will document utility lines on a GIS layer and be more cautious with locates after crews accidentally contacted live high-voltage lines; staff discussed hosting layers on Beacon to improve future locates.
Council members and staff discussed steps to reduce the risk of future utility-locating errors after an outage that cut power to the Lutheran Home. Staff described plans to document the town's electrical lines and host a zoning and electrical GIS layer on Beacon so crews and contractors can find lines more reliably. "Once we implement those maps to Beacon, we'll be able to know where everything is," the Agency official said.
The staff member explained that on high-voltage work they must open the cabinet and clamp over the high-voltage wires, which requires specialized handling. Council asked about one-call procedures and who performs locates; staff said the City is notified through the 1-call system and that specific employees (Eric and Garrett) typically do the locating. The discussion closed with staff confirming the previously unused cabinet is now live and that mapped records should prevent similar incidents.
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