Industry Events
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Texas811 Damage Prevention Summit — Galveston, October 7–9, 2026
The Texas damage prevention calendar's main event, six weeks out. Early registration pricing ends September 2.
Ground Truth
Industry Watch
Sourced summaries of news, law, events, equipment, safety and litigation related to buried utilities.
Industry News
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CGA’s damage index hit a record high in 2025, on 221,717 reported damages
The Common Ground Alliance's annual damage data is out, and the direction is the wrong one: a record-high index, telecom and gas absorbing 87 percent of reported damages, and the same root causes as every year before.
Law & Regulation
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If your spec still says ASCE 38-02, it is citing a superseded standard
Two standards changes that quietly invalidate boilerplate: the SUE standard was replaced and retitled in 2022, and residential post-tensioned slabs picked up a code reference in the 2024 IRC.
Law & Regulation
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New Mexico’s excavation rules changed on April 6, 2026 — new ticket types are now in force
If your New Mexico ticketing habits were formed before April 2026, they are out of date. The Public Regulation Commission's damage prevention rules changed, and New Mexico 811 now issues ticket types that did not previously exist.
Safety Alerts
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PHMSA advisory bulletin puts excavation damage prevention back on the record
PHMSA used National Safe Digging Month to restate what it expects: adherence to CGA best practices, accurate and timely locating, and proactive coordination with excavators.
Equipment
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Survey-grade GNSS is arriving inside the locator itself
The interesting equipment trend is not better detection. It is that the point being marked now carries a survey-grade coordinate at the moment it is found.
Industry News
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Texas has logged more than 4,800 excavation-related pipeline strikes so far in 2026
Railroad Commission data reported in June puts Texas past 4,800 excavation-related pipeline strikes for the year — and roughly a third of the excavators involved had not contacted 811 before digging.
Law & Regulation
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Texas’s underground facility safety bills died in 2025 — the work moved to an interim subcommittee
Three bills touching Texas's dig law died in committee in 2025 without a hearing between them advancing. The story didn't end there: the House stood up an interim Subcommittee on Underground Facility Safety, and it has already taken testimony.
Litigation
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Utility pays maximum penalty and must remap its lines after telling an excavator the site was marked
A Missouri consent judgment reported in May 2026 is worth reading by anyone whose job involves telling somebody else that a site has been marked.
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