Electricity Safety & Education Gopher State One Call

Planning a building or landscaping project in your property that requires excavation? It’s the law in Minnesota to contact Gopher State One Call two business days prior to starting your project. Gopher State One Call is a non-profit organization that acts as a communications link between homeowners and excavators with utility companies. A call to Gopher State One Call is FREE and within two business days all utility owned underground lines will be marked in the area of the work to be done.

It is the homeowner’s responsibility to mark any underground lines that they may own, (drain tile, secondary electrical lines, invisible fencing, sprinklers, etc.). Careful hand digging must be done within two feet of the utility marking.