Private Lines and Locate Education

NID811 does not provide nor perform nor take responsibility for the actual location of underground utilities. NID811 only provides notice of intended excavations to Members who are underground facility owners when notified by the excavator.

There may be privately owned utilities within your intended dig area. Private utilities are owned by the owner of the property and will not be marked when you contact 811. Please CLICK HERE for a description of private lines. It is your responsibility, as the excavator, to have private utilities located. You can view a list of companies who perform locates for privately owned utilities in North Idaho, sorted by county on our website.

The following companies have registered for free with NID811 and perform private locates in the North Idaho. However, this is not an all-inclusive list of private locate companies in the state.