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Effecfivz June 1, zuls, Alabama 811 began hosling
maee. Cult a voluntary ositive response In ram usable
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kg" ‘ _ V _ 2; .~.- _ Iggv . ,4 . you would Ilka additional infumlalinn on the use
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ti -. -- « — .—~ "3 , . » prevention initiatives eurrently underway.
s an old water guy, I've eertaanly seen my share of
ehanges in attitudes relating to beeoming a member
of an 811 system.
water operators who have been around for the past

twenty to thirty years remember the reluetanee irom both rural

water systems and munieapal water and wastewater systems to

jnlnlng the one eall systems (as they were eallerl in the day). .

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There were a lot of reasons given baek then not to be a member

and I still hear some of the same exeuses today we believed “I '

it would cost too murh to be a member, even though most of eb Tlcket E nt 3 Portal
us dldn'l know what the actual cost was. we still (Iun’I for the

same reason we dldn't know back then ..we don't ask or it we " " . .

ask, we ask the wrong people. Oh, and then there was that, 2=-'=- :, ~

"We iust don't want someone telling us what to rlo " .'; 7 ' '

But today, there is a new way of Ihinklng, mueh ui it brought oi; - - .

about by new leehnology it has helped us appreeiate a better ’ ’

way of rloing things smart phones, tablets, vaeuum nxcavatun,

pumps that aetually work the seeonrl time you neerl one.. _

these are but a tew of the things we've learned to rely on to do

a better job

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The other thing that has ehangerl is the amount of work being 3“ V, 7 4:‘: _, \‘_”,,,.,,.kP fiiclfistrs ‘LVIC-hRF‘alr“{1 .,,S ,3... _.u,,\,,
performed in our areas The increased amount ai work is the at-Li,-as la leaturi,-a on the Mublll: App as well To learn mun:
result of the demand of the folks who have built homes and ataatii new to lzakl: aavaiatage ul thia great st-rviee, S||'npI\ gu
businesses in our eommunitaes. They want tasterinternet, ‘U \_~W =13! 1 mm -«ml vlwh an Wm Pun-| Log In and Sen
better tv, smoother roads and the one thing they really want is “P ‘“ 3“ -‘‘‘“‘”‘ '"‘-‘Y’

less trustrataon and rewer dasmptions in their lives

Embraeing sueh teehnology and ehange has improverl our Because no one knows Your Work area be-fie! than
reliability and expensc of operating water systems aeross the YOU!

country. Many of these same operators and water assoeiattons

comwt/ED on me e
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