2015  CARCGA  Facility Event Report 

 

  In 2013, AB811 added a requirement in California Government Code Section 4216.6 (c) & (d) that statewide information voluntarily provided by operators and excavators regarding facility events would be compiled and made available in an annual report by the regional notification centers and posted on the Internet Web sites of the regional notification centers. A facility event is the occurrence of excavator down time, damages, near misses and violations. In the second year of the California Regional Common Ground Alliance (CARCGA) Virtual Private Damage Information Reporting Tool (aka California 811 Virtual Private DIRT), 33 of the 210 companies registered with California 811 Virtual Private DIRT input facility events. In 2014, there were 39 companies out of 175 that provided facility events. There were 5,263 facility events reported in 2015, up from 5,082 in 2014. (Graph 1) Of the 5,263 facility events input, 2,358 had received tickets. This number of ticketed events represents a 26% increase over the 2014 data. Again, 99% of the facility events reported were damages. (Graph 2) California 811 Virtual Private DIRT is part of the national DIRT program. Any information submitted to California 811 DIRT is propagated into the national database. While California does not require operators to submit data into DIRT, federal regulations for natural gas and pipelines require them to provide data. In 2015, 97% of the California facility events reported were by the natural gas stakeholder group. (Graph 3) California had 1,482,635 location requests in 2015, an increase of 11% over 2014. Los Angeles County had the largest number of location requests (238,388) and the largest number of facility events reported (1,304). Contractors were the largest excavator group that received tickets before excavating. Contractors had 79% of the 2,358 facility events with tickets. Of the 2,905 facility events without tickets, 65% were contractors and 26% were occupants. (Graphs 4 & 5) While the right of way for “private land owner” had the largest number of facility events reported, the type of excavator “contractor” was the largest group doing work on “private land owner” right of way. (Graph 6) 2015’s distribution of root causes still shows that “no notification to the center” is still the largest root cause of a facility event. (Graph 7) Future education should emphasize accurate data collection. An example: the root cause was listed as “other” but under more description it was revealed that the excavator couldn’t provide a ticket number and the facility owner did not show one. The correct root cause would be no notification made to the center. While reported facility events were up over 2014, the number of facility events with tickets increased. With an 11% increase in tickets over 2014 and a 4% increase in facility events; it would seem that the message to get a ticket before you dig is spreading.

 

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DEL NORTE

MODOC

SISKIYOU

TRINITY

2015 Distribution of Tickets

LASSEN

SHASTA

HUMBOLDT TEHAMA

MENDOCINO

PLUMAS

BUTTE

GLENN

SIERRA NEVADA

COLUSA

YUBA PLACER

LAKE

SUTTER EL DORADO

SONOMA

YOLO NAPA

ALPINE

SACRAMENTO AMADOR

SOLANO MARIN SAN FRANCISCO

CALAVERAS TUOLUMNE

SAN CONTRA COSTA JOAQUIN ALAMEDA

SAN MATEO

STANISLAUS

SANTA CLARA

MONO

MARIPOSA

MERCED MADERA

SANTA CRUZ SAN BENITO

FRESNO

TULARE

MONTEREY

Number of Tickets

KINGS

SAN LUIS OBISPO

KERN SAN BERNARDINO

SANTA BARBARA

238,388

INYO

VENTURA LOS ANGELES

100,000 – 110,999 RIVERSIDE

50,000 – 99,999

ORANGE

20,000 – 49,999

SAN DIEGO

IMPERIAL

10,000 – 19,999 1,000 – 9,999 PG&E GIS Group

0 - 999 September 13, 2016 2

154 183 402 601 662 820 837 1,016 1,871 1,972 2,084 2,106 2,124 2,196 2,388 3,460 3,634 3,794 3,936 4,521 4,619 4,936 5,816 5,904 6,731 7,658 8,920 8,963 9,236 9,791 10,171 10,896 12,712 13,256 14,187 15,214 16,781 16,789 18,444 19,956 21,265 22,410 23,300 25,560 26,275

SIERRA ALPINE MODOC TRINITY DEL NORTE PLUMAS MONO LASSEN SISKIYOU COLUSA LAKE GLENN SAN BENITO MARIPOSA INYO TUOLUMNE AMADOR SUTTER YUBA CALAVERAS MENDOCINO YOLO KINGS TEHAMA HUMBOLDT IMPERIAL NAPA SANTA CRUZ SHASTA MERCED BUTTE MADERA NEVADA EL DORADO SAN LUIS OBISPO SANTA BARBARA MONTEREY MARIN SOLANO PLACER TULARE SONOMA STANISLAUS SAN FRANCISCO VENTURA SAN MATEO SAN JOAQUIN FRESNO CONTRA COSTA ALAMEDA SACRAMENTO ORANGE SANTA CLARA KERN RIVERSIDE SAN BERNARDINO SAN DIEGO LOS ANGELES

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0

25,000

Number of Tickets by County

36,813 42,557 45,854 52,783 61,417 68,040 75,922 82,561

50,000

75,000

91,560 98,688 100,901 108,600 100,000

125,000

238,388 150,000

175,000

200,000

225,000

250,000

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DEL NORTE

MODOC

SISKIYOU

TRINITY

2015 Distribution of Facility Events

LASSEN

SHASTA

HUMBOLDT TEHAMA

MENDOCINO

PLUMAS

BUTTE

GLENN

SIERRA NEVADA

COLUSA

YUBA PLACER

LAKE SUTTER

EL DORADO

YOLO SONOMA

NAPA

ALPINE

SACRAMENTO AMADOR

SOLANO MARIN SAN FRANCISCO

CALAVERAS

ALAMEDA SAN MATEO

TUOLUMNE

SAN CONTRA COSTA JOAQUIN STANISLAUS

SANTA CLARA

MONO

MARIPOSA

MERCED MADERA

SANTA CRUZ SAN BENITO

FRESNO

INYO

TULARE

MONTEREY

KINGS

SAN LUIS OBISPO

KERN SAN BERNARDINO

Number of Events

SANTA BARBARA

VENTURA LOS ANGELES

1304

RIVERSIDE

301 - 400

ORANGE

101 - 300 SAN DIEGO

IMPERIAL

31 - 100 1 - 30 0 PG&E GIS Group

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0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 4 5 7 11 12 12 21 21 22 26 27 27 31 32 33 44 52 56 60 61 76 82 85 87 99 101 103 106 129 141 157

ALPINE CALAVERAS DEL NORTE INYO LAKE LASSEN MARIPOSA MODOC MONO PLUMAS SIERRA SISKIYOU TRINITY TUOLUMNE AMADOR GLENN COLUSA KINGS SAN BENITO TEHAMA YUBA MADERA MENDOCINO SUTTER HUMBOLDT SHASTA EL DORADO BUTTE NEVADA YOLO MERCED IMPERIAL NAPA SOLANO MONTEREY SANTA CRUZ PLACER SAN JOAQUIN SAN FRANCISCO SONOMA FRESNO SAN LUIS OBISPO TULARE STANISLAUS SANTA BARBARA MARIN SAN MATEO VENTURA SANTA CLARA KERN CONTRA COSTA SACRAMENTO ALAMEDA SAN BERNARDINO SAN DIEGO RIVERSIDE ORANGE LOS ANGELES

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Number of Facilty Events by County

184 185 186

200

253

309 324

382 400

400

1,304

600

800

1,000

1,200

1,400

1,100 200,000

1,000 175,000

800

Tickets

100,000

600

500

400 75,000

300 50,000

200 25,000

100

ALAMEDA ALPINE AMADOR BUTTE CALAVERAS COLUSA CONTRA COSTA DEL NORTE EL DORADO FRESNO GLENN HUMBOLDT IMPERIAL INYO KERN KINGS LAKE LASSEN LOS ANGELES MADERA MARIN MARIPOSA MENDOCINO MERCED MODOC MONO MONTEREY NAPA NEVADA ORANGE PLACER PLUMAS RIVERSIDE SACRAMENTO SAN BENITO SAN BERNARDINO SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO SAN JOAQUIN SAN LUIS OBISPO SAN MATEO SANTA BARBARA SANTA CLARA SANTA CRUZ SHASTA SIERRA SISKIYOU SOLANO SONOMA STANISLAUS SUTTER TEHAMA TRINITY TULARE TUOLUMNE VENTURA YOLO YUBA

Counties

Facility Events

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Tickets

Facility Events 700 125,000

1,300

Tickets & Facility Events by County

0 0

1,400 250,000

225,000

1,200

900 150,000

 

2014/2015 Facility Events & Damages Reported 5,300 5,263

5,200

5,231 5,100

5,082

5,000

5,050

4,900 2014

2015 Events

Damages

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2014/2015 Facility Events with Tickets 6,000 5,263

5,082 5,000

4,000

3,000

2,000

2,358 1,875

1,000

0 2014

2015 Events

Tickets

Graph 2

 

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2015 Reporting Stakeholder Distribution

Excavator, 120

Private Water, 22

Other, 42

Public Works, 12 Natural Gas, 5,101 Liquid Pipeline, 4 Communications, 4

Graph 3 8

 

Facility Events with Tickets by Excavator Group  1,875

40

8

7

1

51

191

125

60

Graph 4

Facility Events without Tickets by Excavator Group  1,878

748

1

2

3

14

18

47

50

144

Graph 5

 

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Right of Way Where Facility Events Occurred 

Public City Street,  1,635

Data Not Collected,  189 Dedicated Public  Utility Easement, 157 Pipeline, 146 Unknown, 99 Private Business, 58 Private Easement, 49 Public County Road,  32 Others, 19

Private Land Owner,  2,879

Occupant, 677

Unknown, 92 Contractor,  1,991

Utility, 50 Developer, 39 Farmer, 19 Others, 11

Excavator Type on Right of Way “Private Land Owner  Graph 6

 

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Distribution of Root Causes No notification made to the center Notification to center not sufficient Facility could not be found/located Facility markings or location not sufficient Facility was not located or marked Incorrect facility records/maps Excavation practies not sufficient Failure to maintain the marks Failure to use hand tools where required Failure to verify location by pot holing Abandoned facility Data not collected Other 0

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

11

Graph 7