Locating for Excavation Contractors
A utility strike is the excavator's nightmare — injury, outage, environmental damage and liability. Pre-dig locating clears the area of public and private services so crews break ground safely.
Leaks.ca is the educational leak detection hub and service-support division of Leak.ca, helping BC property owners understand leak risks and connect with professional detection services when needed.
Excavation, civil and site contractors need every buried service in the dig area found and marked before the bucket moves. The public one-call covers only utility-company lines; private and on-site services, and non-metallic pipe, need a professional locate combining EM and GPR.
What Excavation Contractors Need
Methods for Excavation Contractors
Clear the dig area of every buried service — public and private — before anyone breaks ground.
Trace and mark buried metallic utilities by inducing or applying a signal and following it with a receiver.
Find the buried lines EM can't — plastic, clay and concrete pipe — by their radar reflection.
Locate the buried services that public one-call programs don't — private and on-site utilities.
Turn a locate into a record: depths, routes and a map your team can use and keep.
FAQ
One-call marks utility-company lines only. Contractors need a professional locate that verifies those, finds private and on-site services, and uses GPR for non-metallic pipe — clearing and documenting the dig area to protect the crew and avoid strike liability.
Serving BC
Locating & scanning for excavation contractors
Professional EM locating, GPR utility locating and concrete scanning across BC are provided through Leak.ca. Leaks.ca is the educational division — for booking and on-site detection across British Columbia, our service partner Leak.ca handles professional assessments.
Educational hub & service-support division of Leak.ca · Serving all of British Columbia · Since 1999