Underground Services In The UK Can Be Anywhere

It is a fact that, in the UK, there is a huge number of everyday services that we all require, such as water, telecoms, sewage pipes, electricity, and so on, that are buried underground. Over the years, just about everything has become buried – even telecoms. Those readers who are older may remember the days when our telephone lines were connected to telegraph poles, but if you think about it, you don’t see many of those around today: they have all been buried underground.

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Records Of Underground Utilities Range From Poor To Non-Existent

Depending upon whose figures you believe, there are between 1.5 million and 2 million kilometres of utility services running underground in the UK. They consist of electricity cables, water pipes, sewage, telecoms, gas pipes, fibre optics, and more. Many of them also need to be repaired, replaced, or even taken out completely, and this means that there are constant works going on all over the UK to excavate and deal with them.

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Utility Records Are Useful When Preparing To Dig, But Must Only Be Used As A Guide

Accidentally striking an underground service when carrying out any form of excavation work can have a huge impact on both the workers doing the digging and the owner of the utility. It is estimated that there are around 4 million excavations of one sort or another carried out every year in Britain, and they result in some 60,000 strikes of cables, gas pipes, telecoms, and so on.

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Level 3 Utility Mapping Qualification – All Online

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