The Cross Bore Safety Association is a community of industry professional that have joined together to address all aspects of utility cross bores for protection against loss of life, injury and property damage.
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"The purpose of the Cross Bore Safety Association is to bring persons and organizations together to create comprehensive high quality standards, guidelines, best practices, means and methods, courses, training,
instructional materials and other related resources for the education and training of owners, installers, regulators, users, inspectors, maintainers and others who can benefit from such so as to minimize the risk for injury, loss of life and property damage from utility cross bores in an effective and efficient manner.”
- Utility owner regulatory locating requirements
- New construction procedures
- Legacy verification procedures
- New technology peer review
- Out reach to affected service industries
- Municipal guidelines for acceptable installation practices
- “The association recognizes the impact from all types of utility cross bores. The association concludes that setting priorities and focus for different types of cross bores will best serve our stated mission statement. The association agrees that the initial focus will be to address cross bores where natural gas lines intersect sewer lines.”
- Other types of cross bores can occur between other combinations of utilities. These may be disruptive, costly and have potential for injury. Intersecting buried electric cables can cause death. Intersecting communications cables can interrupt calls for emergency assistance.
Class 1 Cross Bore Class 2 Cross Bore
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Definition of a Utility Cross Bore
Cross bores are defined as an intersection of an existing underground utility or underground structure by a second utility resulting in direct contact between the transactions of the utilities that compromises the integrity of either utility or underground structure.
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● Mission Statement
● Target Areas of Interest
● Initial Focus
● Definition of a Utility Cross Bore
● Articles of Incorporation