STANDARD COLOR MARKINGS FOR UNDERGROUND FACILITIES

The one-number-to-call system is the latest and most effective tool in the continuing campaign to prevent damage to underground facilities by excavating equipment. Another project that should help to reduce such damage it the use of standard colors for the stakes that are used to mark the locations of underground facilities. In such a system, each type of utility is assigned a color for marking its facilities. (Unless the colors are standardized, utilities that serve more than one state, county, or area would need to stock all colors of markers, which could lead to errors in staking.) Contractors and highway maintenance workers would recognize the uniform colors and be able to identify the type of facility. /Author/

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• Authors:
  • Punches, David E
• Publication Date: 1977

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Photos; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 61-64
• Monograph Title: Geometrics, water treatment, utility practices, safety appurtenances, and outdoor advertisement
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 631
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Color; Excavating equipment; Highway maintenance; Location; Loss and damage; Standardization; Underground structures
• Old TRIS Terms: Marking
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Design; Highways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00172419
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309026563
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Apr 12 1978 12:00AM