West Virginia Underground Facilities Damage Prevention Board

West Virgina 811 Magazine 2020 Issue 4

West Virgina 811 Magazine 2020 Issue 4

Thank you to West Virginia American Water, TC Energy, and American Electric Power - AEP for their generous donations to our Youth Safety Community Service Award Program.

If you would like to participate in the program, please contact Carrie Clendening for details @ [email protected]

Report damages to utility lines at www.wvdpb.com/report-violation

Report Violation | WVDPB Website

Submit your locate request tickets online!

https://wvgc.texas811.org/geocall/portal

ARTICLE: West Virginia’s Civil Enforcement Status.

BY: Courtlandt Smith, WV811 President; and Carrie Clendening, WVDPB Executive Director

ARTICLE: West Virginia’s Enforcement Program Status.

BY: Courtlandt Smith, WV811 President; and Carrie Clendening, WVDPB Executive Director

West Virginia 811 Magazine: 2020 Issue 3

West Virgina 811 Magazine 2020 Issue 3 West Virgina 811 Magazine 2020 Issue 1

Happy National 8-1-1 Day! We are live at Lowe’s until Noon today

LAST DAY TO ENTER
Visit https://www.emailmeform.com/builder/form/1eGz1oceec2qTVcZybf7eX9 to submit your entry for a chance to win a $50 Lowe's Gift Card.

Drawing will be held at 12:00pm on August 11th. Winner will be contacted on or before August 14th.

EmailMe Form - Lowe’s Gift Card Drawing

The West Virginia 811 online portal offers fast and easy access to many resources for facility operators, excavators and homeowners directly from their web browser. Submit, update or view a dig site map of a Locate Request and check the status or submit a Positive Response. Access information about West Virginia 811 news and events and the West Virginia State Laws.

wvgc.texas811.org

CONTEST 5 OF 5

Create your own social media post reminding friends to call 811 before you dig. Make sure to LIKE this page and TAG the West Virginia Underground Facilities Damage Prevention Board in your post! Whoever has the most LIKES/SHARES WINS A $50 LOWE'S GIFT CARD! Happy posting!

Contest ends August 11th at 12:00pm. Winner will be contacted on or before August 14th

CONTEST 4 OF 5
97.5 WQBE-FM will be with us live on location at Lowe's Home Improvement on August 11th from 10:00am to 12:00pm. Tune-in to find out have to enter for a chance to win a $50 Lowe's Gift Card

CONTEST 3 of 5:
FOR YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS

VISIT https://www.emailmeform.com/builder/form/KoCdfcd2Z0GeqU10TAI to nominate one youth organization to win a $50 Lowe's Gift Card to use for completing our Youth Safety Community Service Award Program

CONTEST 2 of 5:
Visit https://www.emailmeform.com/builder/form/1eGz1oceec2qTVcZybf7eX9 to submit your entry for a chance to win a $50 Lowe's Gift Card.

Drawing will be held at 12:00pm on August 11th. Winner will be contacted on or before August 14th.

EmailMe Form - Lowe’s Gift Card Drawing

CONTEST 1 of 5:

Visit the West Virginia 811 table at Lowe's Home Improvement to submit your entry for a chance to win a $100 Lowe's Gift Card.

Drawing will be held at 12:00pm on August 11th. Winner will be contacted on or before August 14th.

Virginia 811

Who is ready to win a Lowe's Home Improvement Gift Card? Between now and August 11th at 12:00pm, you can enter for 5 different chances to win! All winners will be contacted on or before August 14th. The contests will be posted in a series of posts!

CALLING ALL BOY SCOUTS, GIRLS SCOUTS, 4-H, FFA, AND ANY OTHER YOUTH ORGANIZATION: Who wants to receive one of these cool badges or ribbons?

The West Virginia Underground Facilities Damage Prevention Board (WVDPB) and West Virginia 811 (WV811), in partnership with the Common Ground Alliance (CGA), would like to recognize young adults from organizations such as Boy Scots, Girl Scouts, 4-H, , etc. for considering safe digging practices when they conduct a community service project.

The West Virginia Underground Facilities Damage Prevention Board CGA Safety Community Service Award can be earned by completing the attached form and submitting it to Carrie Clendening at WVDPB via email [email protected] or mailed to 206 Berkeley Street, Charleston, WV 25302.

Once the form is received, WVDPB will process the application. Carrie Clendening will contact you and make necessary arrangements to present you with the award. For more information, please contact Carrie Clendening at [email protected] or 681-264-9249.

A call must be placed to West Virginia 811 before every digging project, from simple landscaping projects like planting trees or shrubs, to building a deck or installing a rural mailbox. Every eight minutes an underground utility line is damaged because someone decided to dig without first calling 811. Don’t become part of the statistic – make sure to call 811!

HERE'S HOW IT WORKS:

1) One free, simple phone call to 811 makes it easy for West Virginia 811 to notify all appropriate utility companies of your intent to dig.

2) Call 811 at least 2 days, and not more than 10 days, no including weekends and holidays prior to digging to ensure enough time for utility lines to be properly marked.

3) When you call 811, a representative from WV811 will ask for the location and description of your digging project.

4) West Virginia 811 will notify affected utility companies, who will then send a professional locator to the proposed dig site to mark the approximate location of your lines.

5) Once lines have been properly marked, roll up those sleeves and carefully dig around the marked areas. Remember to dig around marks, not on them, and also remember that time, erosion or root structure growth can shift the locations of utility lines.

Striking a utility line while digging can lead to injury, penalties, repair costs, and inconvenient outages, so consider this a friendly reminder to call 811 before you dig.

Who wants to win a Lowe's Home Improvement gift card? Check back August 1st to learn how!

August 11th is "811 Day" and we're giving away some awesome prizes! 🎁
Check back on August 1st to learn how you can enter to win some of these awesome prizes!
💡 Remember to always call 811 or 1-800-245-4848, or visit www.wv811.com