Blood Hound, LLC: Private Utility Locators

What utilit ies does 811 NOT mark? Blood Hound specializes in locating & marking hard-to-find private utilities and structures not covered by the states’ One Call systems. 811 protects public underground infrastructure by marking utilities from the “main to the meter.” Blood Hound marks private utilities from the meter to your facility. “811 is the Law – make BHUG your Second Call” to increase safety and reduce liability for all stakeholders on your projects.

Blood Hound backs its private-utility locating with a fuller damage-prevention toolkit: geospatial mapping and GIS deliverables, robotic camera pipe inspections, concrete scanning to find rebar and conduit before cutting, and vacuum (hydro) excavation to expose lines without breaking them. Founded in 1999, the company grew from central Indiana – adding an early Cincinnati office in 2006 – into a nationwide operation and is now part of the USIC family of companies. Its niche is everything the free 811 One-Call system does not cover: the private lines that run from the meter to a building or across a facility, where an unmarked line is the owner’s liability rather than the utility’s. Contractors use that second call to reduce risk on excavation-heavy projects.