Call 811 toll-free three full working days before you dig.
Natural gas, electric, sewer, water, cable, fiber optic and other service lines are buried underground.
Professional excavators and homeowners planning to dig should always call their one-call system (MISS DIG in Michigan) at least three full working days before starting any digging project.
A new national three-digit number, 811, was introduced in 2007 to connect people directly to their state’s one-call system. To learn more, please visit, call811.com.
One easy call gets free staking of underground utility lines AND helps protect from injury and expense. To know what’s below, always call 811 toll-free before you dig. You also can continue to reach MISS DIG at (800) 482-7171.
MISS DIG will contact the utility companies to have underground lines marked with stakes, flags or paint. This service is free.
It’s important to call MISS DIG even for routine jobs, such as planting shrubs/trees, replacing a mailbox post or installing a fence or a deck.
To make an appointment or learn more, please visit, missdig.org.
If you will be digging anywhere near a marked area - especially if you are using power equipment - use a shovel and carefully hand dig to expose the lines. This will prevent emergencies and unnecessary service interruptions to you and your neighbors.
To get important facts about natural gas safety and learn what we're doing to keep the areas safe and secure around natural gas pipelines, please click on the following:
Pipelines and People: Your Link to Natural Gas Safety and Awareness.
Damage Prevention Staff and Region Map
Consumers Energy public safety liaisons
Signs That Can Keep You Safe
Raise The Flags
Consumers Energy has aligned with other utilities, MISS DIG, and damage prevention groups in a public awareness campaign. "Raise the Flags" helps raise awareness to contact MISS DIG before you dig.
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Signs like these are used as temporary markers for underground natural gas lines. |