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 ApplicationFor more information on membership and the application, please review this document .
To 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 members.
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 Exctix Ticketing 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.
