A facility owner/operator has in place a robust, proactive mitigation program to identify and mitigate cross bores where their facilities may intrude upon another owner/operator’s facility. The facility owner/operator program promotes safe mitigation of cross bores. A facility owner/operator provides a communications network as a conduit for third parties to report potential cross bores.
Facility owners/operators implement a program to identify and mitigate instances where their facilities may intrude upon another facility owner/operator’s facility.
When a foreign object, such as a conduit, cable or pipe is suspected to be within a non-pressurized underground facility or when the operation of that facility is impaired, a report of a “potential cross bore” should be placed to a centralized point of contact (communications network). The communications network may be a service sponsored by the underground facility owner/operators or the One Call Center. The communications network notifies or provides the facility owner/operator's contact information for the reported location. These reports are treated as an “emergency” under the overriding state law.
After identifying potential cross bore(s), the facility owner/operator takes appropriate action using the latest technologies to inspect the facilities. Utilizing technologies such as camera inspection both pre-and-post construction is effective in preventing new cross bores and mitigating legacy cross bores.