BREAKING NEWS! South Carolina has a new underground damage prevention law. On June 7th, 2011 Governor Nikki Haley, signed into law the “South Carolina Underground Facility Damage Prevention Act”. The new law will go into effect June 7th, 2012. To review the new law, click on “SC State Law”, which is on the bottom pipe of the web home page.
PUPS is now South Carolina 811 Have you heard the news? Palmetto Utility Protection Service, Inc. has a new trademark name. The new trademark name is South Carolina 811. On October 30th, 2010 the South Carolina 811 Board of Directors voted to implement South Carolina 811 as the new trademark name for the South Carolina call center. In the year 2007, the FCC implemented “811” as the designated national telephone number for all Americans to call before starting any type of digging or excavation projects.
Public Awareness Survey - Are you new to SC811? Please fill out our brief Public Awareness Survey so we can learn how you found out about us. Copy and paste this link into a broswer http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SC811Awareness2011
Upcoming Events SC811 will be attending several UCC meetings this quarter. For more information contact Charleigh Elebash at (800) 290-2783 press 4.
February 2012 1 – Low Country UCC; 2 – Beaufort Jasper UCC; 14 – State UCC; 15 – Greenville UCC; 5-16 - SC Highway Engineers Conference in Columbia; 16 - Safety Conference in Myrtle Beach; 21 – Blue Ridge UCC
March 2012 8 – Midlands UCC; 9-11 – Columbia Home and Outdoor Living Show; 21 – Aiken UCC
April 2012 5 - Sumter UCC; 10 - State UCC; 21 - Myrtle Beach School Earth Day; 24 - Horry UCC 25-27 - Joint UCC at Great Wolf Lodge in Concord, NC
Remote Entry Remote Training class is held the 2nd Wednesday of each month. Call (800) 290-2783 press 5 to attend.
Questions Contact SC811 if any questions (800) 290-2783 press 1