Cable Locations
For your safety and the safety of those around you, it's important to know what's underground before starting any digging, staking, fencing or excavation work.
To help you accurately locate underground power cables within Unison’s electricity network area, we provide a Cable Location service. This helps you work safely and reduces the risk of hitting Unison’s power cables.
Think you have a rough idea where they are?
It still pays to get the cables located. Subsidence and earth works can cause cables to move, so when you look at the life-threatening risk of guessing and getting it wrong, it’s worth taking the time to get them located.
We use cable route tracing equipment and ground penetrating radar to locate and mark underground Unison network cables. In all situations, having underground cables located before carrying out work, on or around your property, is a life-saving decision.
Cable Location and Mark-out service
Unison provides a free Plan Service and also offers a Cable Location and Mark-out service for location of our underground electricity network cables.
- For customers connected to the Unison network, or private land-owners, who are looking to locate underground network cables on their property or near the property boundary, this service is provided free of charge.
- For customers connected to the Unison network, or private land-owners, who are looking to locate privately owned underground cables (the service line which runs from the road boundary to your mains switch or meter board), customers are entitled to one location service per year, free of charge. Additional requests may incur a charge.
- For all infrastructure owners, utility asset owners (including territorial authorities), all utility corridor contractors working in the utility corridor and third party contractors, Unison offers location services for which charges apply.
To find our more about our Cable Locate and Mark-out Service, or to request a Cable Locate from Unison, please click through below.
