Colorado 811 Membership
Membership for Owners & Operators of Underground Facilities in Colorado
Benefits of becoming a Colorado 811 Member
Compliance with Colorado One Call law, Colorado Revised Statutes 2022, Title 9-Safety-Industrial and Commercial, Article 1.5 Excavation Requirements.
Colorado 811 provides a full-service locate ticket notification system. Locate ticket requests are transmitted from Colorado 811 to the facility owner/operator or the designated utility locator. The notification includes relevant dig site details, contact information for the person or company planning the excavation, the type of work, the entity for whom the work is being performed, and location specifics such as county, city, address, or intersection, along with a description of where the excavation will take place.
Integrate ticket management software with the Colorado 811 ticketing system via an API. Please note not all companion systems are compatible or equipped to support electronic ticket transfer or submitting Positive Responses. For further information please contact us.
All phone calls into Colorado 811 are recorded and kept for three years. If our members require a copy of a call recording, we will supply it upon request. All locate tickets are kept for three years. If a copy of a ticket (within the last three years) is needed, we will supply a copy upon request.
Automated courtesy calls are initiated promptly upon processing of the locate ticket. During regular business hours, we provide courtesy calls for Damage Tickets. After business hours, courtesy calls are offered for both Emergency Locates and Damage Tickets.
Gain access to Damage Prevention Training, Local Field Liaison resources, and regional Damage Prevention Committees, enabling you to engage with fellow professionals and subject matter experts in the field of damage prevention.
Access to educational events and annual member meeting. Learn More.
Become a Member
Membership in the Utility Notification Center of Colorado, commonly known as Colorado 811, consists primarily of the owners and operators of underground facilities in the State of Colorado, in accordance with Section 9-1.5-101 but allows for two additional membership types.
Facility Owner/Operator Membership ApplicationTo become Facility Owner/Operator Member, please fill out the above application and email it to member-services@co811.org.
What are the member classifications?
Owner/Operator Members are assigned to a membership category that correspond with the type of underground facility being registered with Colorado 811. If a member qualifies for more than one category, only a single category will be assigned. Each membership category is represented by a Board Member. The current list of Board Directors is available at www.co811.org. Board Members are elected by member facilities within their respective facility classification category. Each category director serves a three-year term on the board.
Cable Television
Liquid Pipeline
Electric Cooperative
Government
Electric Distribution
Communications
Gas Distribution
Water/Sewer
Gas Transmission/Gathering
Frequently Asked Questions
Get answers to the most common questions we hear from Facility Owners/Operators.
Membership Questions
Colorado State Law, Colorado Revised Statutes 2022, Title 9-Safety-Industrial and Commercial, Article 1.5 Excavation Requirements, requires all underground facility owners/operators with buried assets within or near any public right of ways, easements, or roadways, in Colorado to be a member of Colorado 811. No other member type is required to be a member of Colorado 811.
There are three types of membership offered at Colorado 811, Facility Owner/Operator Membership, Sustaining Membership, and Excavator Membership.
Contact Member Relations at member-services@co811.org
Owner/Operator membership receives direct notification from Colorado 811 regarding excavations in or around the registered members' defined notification area.
Excavator membership is a yearly $150 fee and are granted the privilege of nominating two (2) Excavator Members to represent Colorado Excavators on the State of Colorado’s Underground Damage Prevention Safety Commission. The final selection will be determined by the Governor.
Colorado 811 classifies members into the following group. Each classification has a board member representative.
Cable Television
Liquid Pipeline
Electric Cooperative
Government
Electric Distribution
Communications
Gas Distribution
Water/Sewer
Gas Transmission/Gathering
Excavator membership is a yearly $150 fee and are granted the privilege of nominating two (2) Excavator Members to represent Colorado Excavators on the State of Colorado’s Underground Damage Prevention Safety Commission. The final selection will be determined by the Governor.
Board members are voted into their position by the utilities in the same category as their facility classification. Directors hold positions for a two-year term. See the current Board of Directors here.
Member Responsibilities
Facility owner/operator members and Sustaining Members are required to post Positive Responses through the Colorado 811 Positive Response system.
It is the responsibility of the facility owner/operator to identify and/or locate their underground facilities. Colorado 811 is a communications link only and does not perform any type of locating services.
An Automatic Positive Response Re-notification occurs when no positive response is posted by the Owner/Operator Member by the locate by date on the locate request, or if positive response supporting documentation is not included with the positive response or if an incomplete positive response code is used to respond. Colorado 811 will continue to send out re-notifications daily until a response is received by Colorado 811 or for 30 days from the locate by date, whichever comes first. Emergency and damage tickets will be excluded from these re-notifications at this time.
Yes, all Automatic Positive Response Re-Notifications, late tickets, are billed on a per transmission basis, please see ticket fees for per transmission cost.
Two (2) End Of Day audits (summaries) will be sent at the end of each day (midnight) to recap the amount of tickets received and their ticket numbers for that day.
If no tickets were received the EOD will have zeros next to Total.
There will be two End Of Day audits, to reflect the A and B ticket numbers. You will see UNCCa or UNCCb next to the EOD at the top left hand corner.
Membership Costs and Billing
New Facility Owner/Operator Members are charged a one-time $150 initial Application & Administrative Fee to cover the cost of onboarding and training a new owner/operator member, in addition to any accrued monthly transmission fees.
To register as a Sustaining Member, there is a one-time application fee of $150. There is also an annual membership fee of $150 billed once per year. In addition, sustaining members will be billed an annual assessment amount for regular transmissions and a separate per-transmission cost for positive response renotifications.
Excavators Members are charged an annual membership fee of $150 billed once per year.
New Facility Owner/Operator Members are charged a one-time $150 initial Application & Administrative Fee to cover the cost of onboarding and training a new owner/operator member, in addition to any accrued monthly transmission fees.
Sustaining Members are charged an annual membership fee of $150 billed once per year. In addition, sustaining members will be billed an annual assessment amount for regular transmissions and a separate per transmission cost for positive response renotifications.
Excavators Members are charged an annual membership fee of $150 billed once per year.
Colorado 811 bills Annual Ticket Transmission Fees in an annual Assessment and Billing Model for ticket transmission fees and invoicing. Learn more here.
No. Invoices are sent via email to a pre-established billing contact. Payment methods include paper check, ACH, eCheck, or EFT methods.
No. All payments must be made payable to Utility Notification Center of Colorado.
Invoices are due in full upon receipt. Any overpayment will be credited to the account and applied to the next billing cycle.
For billing and accounting questions and inquiries please contact us at (303) 232-1991 or submit an email inquiry to accounting@uncc.org.
Database questions
Each member defines an area of notification either by Township, Range, Section, and Quarter Section or by submitting digital file for polygonal coverage.
The area in which your company will get notified of anyone that gives notice to 811 before excavating.
Updating Member owned/operated facilities to the Colorado 811 notification area database is the responsibility of the facility owner. All changes to the notification area database must be submitted in writing, to include mail, fax, or e-mail to notify Colorado 811 Member Relations of the requested change. All change requests will be processed in the order they were submitted, by date.
To better serve member needs, the following timeline is recommended:
Tabular data (Township, Range, Section, Quarter section) should be submitted at least ten (10) business days prior to the date that member facilities require notification of proposed excavation for the geographic location. The member facility owner will be informed by e-mail when the update is complete. Upon request, a revised ¼ section grid report can be obtained from Member Relations.
Digital data, to include GIS shapefiles, should be submitted at least ten (10) business days prior to the date that member facilities require notification of proposed excavation for the geographic location. From the date Colorado 811 receives the database update request, a total of five (5) business days are needed to complete the entry into the existing database. The member will be informed via e-mail when the update is complete. It is the members’ responsibility to review and approve the notification area database. Contact Member Relations personnel for more information.
Requests for a GIS shape file of the existing coverage in the notification area database will require an e-mail sent to the Member Relations Department.
Requests for notification area database updates, due to an emergency, will be accommodated in a timely manner with the resources and personnel available at the time of the request.
A Database Validation Form must be signed and returned to confirm the accuracy and location of the digital data transferred from the GIS shape file into the Colorado 811 system.
All requests will be processed in the order they were received unless otherwise communicated by the member facility owner or operator.
In the Colorado One Call law it states that if you own or operate any underground facilities on or near a public right-of-way or easement you should be registered with Colorado 811.
This describes the required format of Shapefiles that can be imported into the Colorado 811 notification database.
The Shapefile types supported are POINT, LINE and POLYGON. For POINT and LINE shapefiles, you must specify a buffer distance to apply to the file to create a polygon shapefile. A buffer is a radius of a point and/or a line. Minimum buffer that can be applied to linear and radian polygons is 30ft and the maximum is 1000ft.
Each Shapefile submission should be packaged in a ZIP file, with the following four (4) files at a minimum and sent in an email:
ESRI Shapefile (.SHP)
ESRI Shape (.SHX) Index File
ESRI Shape (.DBF) Attributes File
ESRI Shape (.PRJ) Coordinate System File
**Shapefiles submitted must be in the coordinate system of NAD 83 LAT/LONG decimal degrees.
Along with the data please include the following information about the data.
Sender Information – Who is supplying the shapefile(s):
Name and contact information.
Member Code – The member code for which the notification areas will be applied to.
Addition, Partial Replacement or Complete Replacement – The person sending the shapefile update must specify if the files submitted are an addition, a partial replacement, or a complete replacement of the existing notification area.
NOTE: For a partial replacement, the files submitted must contain the data for the entire county. If multiple counties are being replaced a complete replacement of the database is highly recommended.
Effective Date – The date at which the notification areas will become “effective”. You may specify that the notification areas be effective immediately or at some date in the future.
Expiration Date – The date at which the notification areas will expire. You may specify that the notification areas expire NEVER or at some specific date in the future.
Counties Covered – Which counties are covered by the submitted shapefile. This can be a list of one or more counties, or you can specify the entire state (i.e., any counties the shapes fall into.)
Buffer Distance (in FEET) – If the shapefile being submitted contains point or line features, they will be buffered and converted into polygons. You must specify the buffer distance in feet for these types of shapefiles. Shapefiles containing polygons are assumed to already include the necessary buffers.
Email shapefiles to the Member Relations Department at member-services@co811.org
IMPORTANT NOTES AND LIMITATIONS:
When shapefiles are imported into the mapping database, they are automatically clipped to the county or counties they intersect.
Polygons are limited to 4 square miles in area. Polygons that are larger than 4 square miles will be partitioned into smaller polygons that cover the same area.
Polygons which are made up of more than 9 points will be simplified.
There is a maximum density limit of 16 polygons per quarter minute grid.
In processing the importation of data, small gaps/holes less than 300ft in extent (width or height) will automatically be filled in due to the minimum buffer of 150ft of the dig site to limit complexity of the output.
