Utilities Coordinating Committee (UCC) Jones/Onslow Counties Monthly Meeting August 18, Meeting Minutes

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1 Utilities Coordinating Committee (UCC) Jones/Onslow Counties Monthly Meeting August 18, 2016 Meeting Minutes Opening prayer at 11:37 am Lunch ~ Courtesy of PRG (Project Resources Group) ~ Thank you! Meeting began at 12:00 pm Vice-Chairman Ralph Murphy thanked everyone for coming to the meeting and thanked PRG for providing lunch for everyone. NC 811 Updates Howard Corey showed the video updates from Steven Moore with NC 811. There is a new state law effective October 1, It states that any operators with less than 25,000 customers and 500 miles of facilities MUST be a member of NC 811 as required by the Underground Utility Safety and Prevention Act. If an operator is NOT a member of NC 811 and their facilities are damaged from someone digging, they cannot be held liable for the cost of damages to the facilities. Incident reporting is at an all-time high. For the month of June this year, NC811 recorded the greatest number of reported incidents EVER at 947, (in the 8 years that NC 811 has been tracking this information.) This number reflects a 78% increase in reported incidents over the 532 incidents reported in June of This increase doesn t mean more incidents are occurring, just that more are actually being reported, due to a change in the law back in During the month of August, there is a contest entitled, How do you 811? You can enter to win one of 3 Lowe's Home Improvement gift cards. Visit nc811.org for more information.

2 Looking at the numbers Locate Tickets for NC for July ,259 15% increase over July Transmissions for NC for July ,182 29% increase over July Onslow County had 1,424 locate requests for July; while Jones County had 178 locate requests for July, which together totals 82 tickets per day on average. Damage Information. For the 2 nd Quarter of 2016, there was a total of 2,377 Damage Events reported from 78 counties in North Carolina. Over 85% of these events were due to contractor damage. Howard Corey reviewed some exemptions to the NC State Laws concerning digging: 1) An excavation or demolition performed by the owner of a single family residence on his or her own property, as long as they are not digging on the right of way or easement. 2) An excavation or demolition that involves tilling of soil for agricultural or gardening purposes, as long as they are not digging on the right of way or easement. 3) An excavation or demolition performed when the Department of Transportation, a local government, a special purpose district or public service district is conducting maintenance activities within its designated right of way. Maintenance activities shall include: resurfacing, drilling, emergency replacements or critical signs for maintaining safety or the re-shaping of shoulders and ditches to the original road profile. Maintenance activities do NOT include initial installation of traffic signs, traffic control equipment, or guardrails. 4) An excavation of a grave space or installation of a monument at a grave site. Howard also discussed off-site sewer systems where homeowners and subdivisions have individual sewer systems along the roads that may not be marked. Please, always be very careful when digging! **Utility Updates** ONWASA Continued sewer project in Kenwood area on OCI Drive, Walnut Drive, and Fire Tower Rd to Pony Farm Rd. 600 ft installed at this point, everything going well. Onslow County Emergency Services Brian Kelly gave safety reminders; use caution on the waterways. He gave kudos to Piedmont Natural Gas for being fast and helpful during a recent gas leak. He asked if everyone will work on being prepared for emergency situations, and work quickly with the on-site incident commander during an emergency. Jones County Busy with Maysville by-pass. JOEMC Many commercial projects, Dixon Middle School in Sneads Ferry, Hampton Inn in Sneads Ferry, other retail areas in Sneads Ferry, Bridgeport, Oyster Landing, Pender County work, many meter service requests daily, will soon start changing out poles along the beach and coastal areas. Marty Shepard discussed the October UCC breakfast meeting which will be held on October 20 th at 6:30 am. Everyone, please be prepared and have your donations ready.

3 Pluris Pluris has acquired Webb Creek and they are trying to locate force mains, and still handling construction in Nautical Reach and Village of Folkstone. City of Jacksonville Onslow County parking lot renovation phase II (portion adjacent to Tillman and Court street); Western Regional Trunk Sewer lift station, new lift station and force main to be installed at Williamsburg Plantation; Gravity trunk sewer installation and new lift station at Carolina Forest pump station to upgrade force main; COJ is studying Henderson Drive water and sewer lines for possible replacement before NCDOT resurfaces the road (in the area of Hwy 17 to Jacksonville High School. ESP Associates Engineering surveying company out of Wilmington; first time attending the Jones/Onslow UCC meeting. Their company works closely with NCDOT and Duke Energy. Locally, they have just completed work at the Commerce Drive extension and have previously done work on Henderson Drive. Century Link Personnel update their engineer Anthony Melilli has left the company, interim engineer should be attending the UCC meeting in September. They have been performing extensive rehabs on their manholes. Due to a recent fiber cut on New River air station, a meeting was held with Base Telephone folks, and therefore Century Link has extended an invitation for their staff to attend the UCC meetings. Piedmont Natural Gas Right of way crews have cleaned up those areas; work in Kinston on Hwy 258, some work on Camp Lejeune; Safety reminder that school is starting back soon and asks that everyone aware of the kids on the roads. USIC Staying plenty busy; will help anyone try to locate underground utilities. If you have an issue you may contact their locators directly, so they can respond quickly. PRG New field investigator, Hunter Maready, (replacing Sherry Mora), handles damage claims for Time Warner (Charter). Dominic Phillimeano, manager at PRG was also present with contact information to report damages for Time Warner Cable. Town of Swansboro Getting ready to buy new equipment and start doing storm drain repair and doing road repair. NCDOT Piney Green project continues, Belgrade by-pass, many shoulder repairs, crossline repairs and replacements, mowing contractor working, in process of compiling resurfacing plan. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ralph Murphy added that ONWASA will be highlighting NC 811 in their Customer Newsletter for September, which will be sent to over 49,000 customers. Brian with USIC added that on the emergency locate tickets, many times the contact number on the ticket is not a good number for after hours. He asks that everyone please give a good number for them to call concerning emergency locates. Robert Lanier of JOEMC asks that everyone please give a head count for how many people from your organization will attend the October Breakfast Meeting. The deadline for submitting your donation to JOEMC for sponsorship at that event is OCTOBER 3 rd.

4 This meeting ended at 12:42 pm. These minutes were prepared by Sherry Jones with ONWASA. ** The next Jones/Onslow UCC meeting is scheduled for Thursday, September 15 11:30 am. We ask that all participating companies and organizations attend, as we are still preparing for the October breakfast event. We will need your pledged donation amount, head count of those who will attend, and if possible, please bring any door prizes you would like to give away or small gadgets for the goody bags. Lunch will be sponsored by Pluris. See you there!

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6 NC811 ANALYTICS

7 LOCATE REQUESTS / TRANSMISSIONS July 2016 vs 2015 Tickets 2016: 166, : 144,235 Difference: % Transmissions 2016: 909, : 704,049 Difference: % Year to Date 2016 Tickets: 1,099, % increase over 2015 Transmissions: 5,902, % increase over 2015

8 COUNTY TICKET VOLUME LAST MONTH STATS COMPARED WITH PREVIOUS YEAR Type Ticket Work Days # Tickets Average Locates Per Day % Measured against Total Tickets Jones 3 HR CNCL NEW RXMT UPDT Total Tickets % 3 HR % CNCL % NEW % RXMT % UPDT % 1.2% 86.8% 1.8% 10.2% % 0.0% 43.8% 0.0% 56.2% +/- Var 0% % -46.2% % 488.2% 6.6% Diff +/- 0.0% -1.2% -43.0% -1.8% 46.0% Locates per day 9 Onslow 3 HR CNCL NEW RXMT UPDT Total Tickets % 3 HR % CNCL % NEW % RXMT % UPDT % 1.1% 77.2% 1.4% 20.1% % 1.1% 84.6% 1.1% 12.9% +/- Var 66.7% -23.8% -19.4% -42.9% -53.0% -26.4% Diff +/- 0.2% 0.0% 7.3% -0.3% -7.3% Locates per day 71

9 COUNTY TICKET VOLUME YTD COMPARED WITH PREVIOUS YEAR Work Days # Tickets Average Locates Per Day Type Ticket % Measured against Total Tickets Jones 3 HR CNCL NEW RXMT UPDT Total Tickets % 3 HR % CNCL % NEW % RXMT % UPDT % 0.3% 92.2% 1.1% 6.4% % 1.3% 62.0% 0.3% 36.4% +/- Var 100% 650.0% 28.0% -42.9% 987.5% 90.4% Diff +/- 0.1% 0.9% -30.2% -0.8% 30.0% Locates per day 8 Onslow 3 HR CNCL NEW RXMT UPDT Total Tickets % 3 HR % CNCL % NEW % RXMT % UPDT % 0.9% 77.0% 1.2% 20.8% % 0.9% 81.5% 1.0% 16.3% +/- Var 800.0% -21.4% -8.8% -26.7% -32.4% -13.8% Diff +/- 0.2% -0.1% 4.5% -0.2% -4.5% +/- Var Locates per day 73

10 COUNTY TICKET DISTRIBUTION County/Place 07 July JONES 178 CASWELL 1 COMFORT 1 HARGETTS CROSSROADS 1 MAYSVILLE 76 POLLOCKSVILLE 57 TRENTON 41 WISE FORK 1 County/Place 07 July ONSLOW 1424 BEAR CREEK 3 BELGRADE 7 CAMP LEJEUNE 101 HALF MOON 3 HAWS RUN 1 HOLLY RIDGE 79 HUBERT 109 JACKSONVILLE 712 JACKSONVILLE OUT 18 MIDWAY PARK 23 NEW RIVER STATION 2 NORTH TOPSAIL BEACH 36 PINEY GREEN 6 PUMPKIN CENTER 4 RICHLANDS 100 SNEADS FERRY 111 SOUTHWEST 2 SURF CITY 11 SWANSBORO 74 TAR LANDING 3 TARAWA TERRACE I 14 TARAWA TERRACE II 2 VERONA 2 WHITE OAK ESTATES 1

11 REMOTE TICKET ENTRY

12 DAMAGE INFORMATION

13 DAMAGE INFORMATION SECOND QUARTER REVIEW

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15 DURING THE MONTH OF AUGUST ENTER TO WIN ONE OF 3 LOWE'S HOME IMPROVEMENT GIFT CARDS The contest will run from August 1st, 2016 to August 31st HOW TO ENTER: Contestants will enter by completing all of the following two tasks. One: go to and fill out the contest entry form to upload your pics or send us a link to a video you created. Two: Post your pics or videos on your facebook or twitter page using the hashtag #howdoyou811.

16 JOIN US AT THE RACETRACK Cheer on the driver of the NC811 car, Tim Edison From now thru September Gastonia, NC

17 JOIN US AT THE BALLPARK Fri, August 19 th 7pm 10pm 30 Buchanan Pl, Asheville, NC

18 NC811 BOARD MEETING 3Q16 Harrah s, Cherokee, NC October 21 st, :30am For booking information, contact Tonya Hargraves:

19 STATE NCUCC MEETING When: Tue, September 13, 10am 1pm Where: Dominion North Carolina Power 200 Vepco St Roanoke Rapids, NC 27870

20 Thank you for your time and attention. You can get a PDF copy of this presentation on Use the UCC Issues form to voice your concerns to both local and state level UCC meetings in North Carolina. Available on both the NCUCC website and the NC811 app.