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From The Desk of Lee Marrs – “Let the Results Speak for Themselves”
Greetings and welcome to Texas811 Magazine’s Annual Pipeline Issue. Our Texas and national pipeline companies are dedicated to being our safe and silent neighbors. The products these pipelines transport are vital to maintaining the great way of life we enjoy. This magazine is but a small part of the way in which these companies go [...]
Making the Connection from Data to Information
Operating and maintaining a damage prevention and public awareness program for a pipeline system that operates across 13 states is a huge undertaking. With tracking and responding to one-call tickets, supervising exposures and encroachments, ensuring regulatory compliance, monitoring rights-of-way and investigating and reporting line strike incidents all while maintaining an aggressive public education program, it’s [...]
Spring into Damage Prevention
By JimBob Sims Director of Damage Prevention Texas811 When the calendar rolls around to April, many thoughts come to the minds of many people. The rancher thinks about the spring branding, while the homeowner is probably planning those much needed home repairs and improvements and getting their gardens started. But for those of us in damage [...]
The John Jacobi Perspective
by John Jacobi DATA, DATA, DATA – it’s all about the data!! Management consultant Peter Drucker once said, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” Truer words were never spoken. This past January, the Department of Transportation’s Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS), which is part of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration [...]
4th Annual Texas811 Damage Prevention Summit a Huge Success
More than 400 damage prevention professionals and stakeholders from across Texas and neighboring states gathered in downtown Fort Worth for the 4th Annual Texas811 Damage Prevention Summit, held February 19th-21st. This year’s Summit was held at the beautiful historic Hilton Fort Worth. With 46 vendors and 20 sessions, there was never a dull moment. The [...]
Take Caution With Pipelines
One of the greatest single challenges to safe pipeline operations is the accidental damage caused by excavation, construction, farming activities, or even homeowner construction and maintenance. Before you dig or excavate, contact the One-Call Center by simply dialing 811 from anywhere in the United States. Please call before you start your project, whether landscaping, building [...]
The Orange Shoe Man
Where the Shovel Meets the Dirt By Bob Nighswonger Hello, my name is Bob and I am a line locator by trade. I currently enjoy the job of professionally instructing others who perform line locating duties. As a line locator, I have walked many miles in boots covered with marking paint while responding to over [...]
From The Desk Of Lee Marrs
Greetings – we’re in the midst of last minute Christmas preparations and looking forward to 2013, which promises to be full of opportunities to make a difference for damage prevention in Texas. Our Director of Operations, Chris Stovall, is pursuing an advanced degree at Texas Women’s University. He recently finished up a class in Marketing [...]
Getting to Know JimBob Sims Texas811’s New Director of Damage Prevention
Beginning in 2013, Texas811 will have a new Director of Damage Prevention. His name is JimBob Sims, and there couldn’t be a better man for the job. Lee Marrs, President and CEO of Texas811, says, “If you walked into a crowded room of 100 people, and you said to the person you were with – [...]
Acoustic Pipe Locator Technology Unveiled at Texas Safety Days
By Amy Chmura, Staff Writer What if there was technology that allow ed for finding underground pipes, cables and conduits previously unlocatable by electromagnetic locators, even plastic lines with no tracer wires? Is this technology that sounds like something from the future? Well, the future is here. The Ultra-Trac Acoustic Pipe Locator (APL) is now being [...]
