Louisiana sees about 5,000 incidents of damage to buried utilities each year, or roughly 13 per day. Two new state laws aim to reduce those incidents and the costly disruptions they can cause. Act 902, which took effect Aug. 1, makes a number of changes to Louisiana’s underground utility damage-prevention framework. Brent Saltzman, executive director
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