A look into the 2018 DIRT Report Common Ground Alliance (CGA) is an organization dedicated to protecting underground utility lines, people who dig near them, and their communities. The program collects critical information and analyzes all 2018 data submitted anonymously and voluntarily by facility operators, utility locating companies, one-call centers, contractors, regulators and others. According
GPRS was contacted by a small town near the Mississippi river to scan the entire towns public roads for large subsurface voids. GPRS scanned over 30 miles of road and was able to connect our GPR directly to a GPS unit in order to overlay all of the GPR findings in Google Earth and to
The job was to scan a slab on grade area for multiple sawcuts and trenches for a proposed bathroom installation. The problem was that this was a building addition from the original building and no prints or asbuilts existed, to show any potential sanitary tie in points for the client or existing utilities in or
The market for vacuum excavation is expanding in all directions. What was once the realm of smaller contractors with one truck doing sub-contract work for larger contractors, the industry is now seeing more and more of the large contracting firms adding vacuum excavation to their portfolios. “The growth in vacuum excavation is largely due to
Video Pipe Inspection is a method of visually inspecting a utility line to detect cracks, infractions, blockages, and other imperfections in the line. The process involves navigating a camera through the line, either manually or via a remote control, which provides a video feed of the pipe interior to an on-site monitor for viewing. Head/Camera
Becoming One of the Largest Privately Held Utility Locating Companies in the United States. TOLEDO, Ohio, August 5, 2019 – Ground Penetrating Radar Systems, LLC (“GPRS”), has acquired Master Locators utility locating business (“Master Locators”), a leading provider of private utility locating, concrete scanning, vacuum excavation, SUE and video pipe inspection services. Master Locators’ clients
Master Locators was started in 2003 by brothers Gus and Steve Sareyka. Our tagline “Because What’s Underneath Matters” is more than just what’s underneath the ground. We are also referring to what’s underneath a person and this holds true to our core values. The ML core values include Humility, Integrity, and Passion. The deep respect
