General Information
How we detect and
locate services
• Using Plans and drawings:
Drawings, plans or information should always be obtained but they may be faulty or
incomplete. The difficulty of obtaining information about buried utility lines is that
nothing is visible.
• Electromagnetic location:
This method of locating buried pipes, cables and sewers has become almost universal.
The main shortcoming is that it will not locate non-metallic lines such as plastic pipes.
However, utilities taking the small amount of trouble to lay tracer wires with plastic pipes
are not affected by this shortcoming.
The technology has a large number of advantages and Leica Geosystems specialize in
developing and exploiting electromagnetic location technology.
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