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Buried service locating made simple with Ridgid
Utility engineersare today facing ever- increasing difficulties in installing and maintaining their buried assets, pipelines, cables, fibre opticsand ducts. Thisisdue in no small part to the increasingly overcrowded subsurface, not just in the major townsand citieswhere such congestion might be expected, but now in evermore rural areas.
Today’s utility consumers are more likely to claim against loss from disruption of a service and traffic authorities. At the same time, local councils are more open to charging for excessive damage to roads and pathways and the results of traffic diversions in a way that has rarely been seen in the past.
The Ridgid SR-20
So, when it comes to knowing where it is safe to excavate to minimize the potential for loss of service or cost to the contractor for social and traffic interference, how does the modern engineer know that existing utility plans are accurate? In many parts of the world, existing plans are rarely up to date and often services have been moved to make way for other installations, building works or other diversionary reasons. It, therefore, becomes a pressure on the utility engineer to ensure that where it is necessary to dig, all possible checks have been made to avoid any potential hazards and delays. However, these checks in themselves have to be completed in the least disruptive way whilst offering complete, efficient and cost-effective mapping of the subsurface infrastructures.
THE RIDGID SR-24 and SR-20
As a provider of some of the world’s most cost-effective and efficient equipment to the utility industry RIDGID® offers buried service location equipment that does just this job.
The RIDGID® SeekTech® SR-24 and SR-20, are the company’s primary instruments for the location of water, gas, telecommunications and electric utility services and have been specifically designed to enable field operatives, to locate and map underground pipelines, cables and ducts serving these utility providers.
Their design has been specifically engineered to make it an easy- to-use, simplified method for the site operator that also offers significant improvements in productivity and location confidence, without the need to have a highly qualified surveyor on site.
The SR-24 and SR-20 can operate in both Passive and Active Modes. Passive modes include 50-60Hz; low bandwidth (<4kHz),
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