Way Over Your Head
Cables, cables, and more cables. These two utility types are typically found attached to poles.
What is electric and Telecommunications?
These utilities do not require rain for their type to be considered wet.
What is water and sewer?
This encasement material is an alloy of iron and carbon and it is often used in the construction of roads, railways, buildings, and other infrastructure.
What is steel?
Not to be left out, overhead utility lines also fall under this engineering discipline.
What is Subsurface Utility Engineering?
(Using the distinct utility marking colors, fill in the blanks)
(blank) is red, (blank) is blue.
What is Power (or Electrical) and Water?
Unlike pants, when this utility "shockingly" sags, it still requires 22ft of vertical clearance above the highway.
What is electrical (power) lines?
When crossing the highway centerline, this utility regulation has this angle degree in common with a right triangle.
What is 90 degrees?
An antonym of exit, encasements provide this for utilities.
What is access?
Some would consider this Quality Level the teacher's pet, as it gives you the highest level of certainty pertaining to the location of utilities.
What is Quality Level A?
Yellow is often associated with being friendly and outgoing, but one run-in with this particular utility will ensure that more than just your personality will be explosive.
What is Gas?
The typical length of a yard stick, this is the distance power poles must be within the ROW.
What is 3ft?
Diamonds are forever, but with less than 60 PSI of pressure, this type of pipeline unfortunately won't yield one for you.
What is a low-pressure pipeline?
This encasement material is the second-most-used substance in the world after water. Evidence of it's use can be traced back as far as 700 BC.
What is concrete?
Often used by our canine friends to relieve themselves, this object is enough visual evidence to assign Quality Level C to any water utility that may be present.
What is a fire hydrant?
With an expiration date longer than the leftovers in your refrigerator, after the utilities are marked, excavation must take place before this length of time.
What is 14 days?
With this utility only requiring 18ft of clearance above the highway, there's only a few feet separating your ability to use TikTok from the top of a shipping container on the back of Semi.
What is Fiber Optics or Telecommunications cable?
Even though water is the main character, the depth of cover for crossing is shallower than most pools.
What is 30 inches?
This encasement material is resistant to many natural degradation processes and is often the material of choice for manufacturing many household products.
What is plastic?
Being the Avatar, Aang, from The Last Airbender, would be the ideal person to use for these two excavation techniques.
What is hydro and air excavation?
It would take an average commercial plane 15 years to fly this distance, but it's the amount of utility lines existing underground in the state of Texas.
What is 7 million miles?
A little less than a hop, skip, and a jump away, this distance is all the clearance required between power and telecommunication lines.
What is 40 inches?
OUCH! Is what you wouldn't have time to say if you ran across electrical lines carrying this voltage, buried at 42" min depth of cover.
What is 40kV?
(Fill in the blank)
When crossing a road or highway the encasement provides (blank) & (blank) (blank)
What is Highway & Utility Protection?
To avoid being SUE'd, it is only proper that Subsurface Utility Engineering falls under this Pillar of Utility Engineering.
What is Utility Investigation?
Never to be outdone by Jupiter, Saturn currently holds the record for having the most of these.
What is moons?