Features
Damage Prevention in New Mexico Reaches New Level
2012 marks a new year and a new approach to damage prevention in New Mexico. Thanks to House Bill 500 which was signed into law (HB500), then the pending PRC Rules & Regulations, the Damage Reporting & Enforcement Tracking System (DRETS) and NM811’s huge advertising effort, New Mexico will see marked improvement in damage prevention. [...]
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The NMPRC heard comments on the proposed Rules & Regulations on January 10, 2012. New requirements under consideration include: 1. Mandatory white lining for standard 10 day tickets; 2. Mandatory reporting of excavation damages to NM811; 3. Mandatory requirement to notify affected homeowners; 4. Mandatory third party damage reporting by UFOs using the Damage Reporting [...]
NM 811 Member and Excavator Survey Report
For the past 20 years, Cooney Watson & Associates, Inc. (CWA) has been engaged by New Mexico One Call, Inc. (NMOC) to conduct comprehensive, independent surveys of a representative number of members. The purpose of the survey is to assess member satisfaction with the organization, identify any needs not currently being met, and assess priorities [...]
What a Deal!
Check out this sign. 37,000 people drive past it every day! If you’ve been looking for the right place to promote your commitment to public safety and damage prevention in New Mexico, you need to contact New Mexico 811 and find out how cost effective this is for the members and users of the one [...]
Pipelines: Safest Form of Transportation, Critical to Energy Supply
Crisscrossing the country are more than 320,000 miles of natural gas transmission pipelines that serve as underground highways transporting the nation’s energy. Pipelines are a critical component of our nation’s energy infrastructure. They safely and reliably transport 25 percent of the country’s total energy consumption that is delivered to more than 70 million United States [...]
The Doctor: Is Your Company a Schoolhouse?
Let’s begin our discussion by asking you to answer the following questions about your damage prevention team: 1. Do you want your team members to be mediocre? 2. Do you want your team members to be complacent? 3. Do you want your team members to be average? (Remember average is the best of the least [...]
The Master of Zing: Hop on the REA 45-10-10 Express!
The news media’s announcement that the U. S. Postal Service is in trouble wasn’t a huge surprise to most of us. The world has shifted; we are using email so that business is down for the postal service. E-mail is immediate and doesn’t require postage. Perhaps it has the greatest cost of all, the cost [...]
Me and Dillard
Strange as it may seem in today’s world of bicycle helmets and knee pads, by my seventh birthday I had been given a Stevens .410 shotgun. Of course, it wasn’t close to being a new gun, but to me it was the one that tamed the west. There was a little patch of timber across [...]
NMRCGA Conference
The NMRCGA Conference show in Farmington was by all accounts a huge success. Over 400 people were in attendance and the fishing derby and golf tournament were big hits. The next NMRCGA Conference is scheduled in Albuquerque for May 21-23, 2013. See you there!
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NM811 held a special board meeting in Farmington prior to the NMRCGA Conference to discuss a $0.03 per ticket increase for three quarters beginning the first quarter of 2012. The increases are necessary to keep the cash flow high enough to meet the bank’s mortgage contract debt coverage ratio requirement. The $0.03 equates to roughly [...]
