Author: GSOC
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How to Submit Precise Marking Instructions on Your Ticket and Mark the Excavation Area in White
Gopher State One Call wants you to have a safe and successful excavation process. Providing precise marking instructions is a critical step to ensuring a smooth locate by assisting the locator to work more efficiently and effectively. After providing the general location of a proposed excavation via the address or corresponding driving directions, you’ll be…
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2019 Ticket Volume and Ticket Seasonality
Gopher State One Call annually compiles its ticket submission and transmission volumes. Information like this is shared to help make a correlation between one call center ticket and/or transmission volume to damages or events that have occurred. Receiving ticket and transmission volumes from one call centers allows stakeholders to review more accurate projections and to…
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‘Learn From the Unexpected’ with Gopher State One Call
Back on December 6, we hinted at a new social media campaign we were working on with our Chief Operations Officer, Barb Cederberg. We’re proud to announce our latest project: Learn From the Unexpected. What is Learn From the Unexpected? It’s a Facebook campaign that invites members of the excavation community to share stories so…
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Register for Your Local Damage Prevention Meeting
The Minnesota Common Ground Alliance invites all who share the goal of preventing damages and increasing awareness for the use of best practices to register for their local Damage Prevention meeting. DP meetings are held by and for the excavation community each year in March and April. They are focused on safe digging and best…
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GSOC Teases New Social Media Campaign for January
You may have noticed a post made on November 4, 2019, on GSOC’s Facebook page. The post features behind-the-scenes photographs starring GSOC’s Chief Operations Officer, Barbara Cederberg, alongside the Gopher State One Call vehicle at a jobsite. We’ve been hard at work creating a brand-new social media campaign that supports learning from and sharing safety…
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CenturyLink Transition to USIC as Locator Effective 12/2/19
On April 1, 2019, CenturyLink changed underground facility locate vendors from USIC (US Infrastructure Company) to Unitek (under their DirectSat subsidiary). We made this change to improve our performance, diversify vendors, and improve the competitive landscape of underground location companies. This transition was met with significant challenges. We have continually pursued and implemented solutions to…
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GSOC Attends the 2019 OCC Users’ Group in Portland
One Call Concepts, Inc., the service provider for Gopher State One Call, held its annual Users’ Group meeting in Portland, Oregon from Sept. 24-26. The primary goal of the Users’ Group meeting is to provide a networking and information sharing platform, as well as to give the notification centers that OCC serves with the latest…
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Day of the Dozers Raises $55,000 for Kids
Day of the Dozers held its seventh annual charity event on Saturday, September 28, at the ERX Motor Park in Elk River, Minnesota. The event exceeded its goal of $55,000. All proceeds went toward the Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota. These funds will support Child and Family Services, the Concussion Clinic and the Day…
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Watch Digging Dangers 29: Good Intentions
On July 10, 2018, the town of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin changed forever. A mismarked gas main ruptured during a 5G fiberoptic cable installation which caused a massive explosion on the town’s Main Street. Fire Captain Cory Barr was killed, multiple businesses were destroyed and dozens of families lost their homes. In the twenty-ninth edition of…