Underground Utility Locate at the Marathon Petroleum Terminal
- Port Everglades, Florida

A project engineer needed to locate underground utilities in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The area that needed to be surveyed, using ground penetrating radar, was the Marathon Petroleum Spangler and Eisenhower Terminal facilities in Port Everglades, Florida. The project engineer contacted Ground Penetrating Radar Systems, LLC., who are specialists in underground utility locating. This is an ideal application for ground penetrating radar, which is one that GPRS, LLC. was capable of providing. The GPRS, LLC. South Florida team accepted the project and mobilized to the site to perform the investigation.

On site, GPRS provided their OSHA 10 credentials and underwent thorough on site safety training to ensure that all safety protocol were followed accurately. Prior to the installation of new concrete foundations and excavation of pipeline casting, GPRS performed the subsurface inspection. During the investigation, GPRS was able to use ground penetrating radar to locate underground utility lines and piping, in the vicinity of where the excavating was scheduled to occur. The GPR investigation was a success in locating the underground utilities to mitigate the potential risk of coming in contact with prior to breaking ground.

Larry Wade is a Project Manager for GPRS, LLC. in the South Florida/Gulf Coast Region.

He can be contacted at (786) 575-2583 or via email at larry.wade@gp-radar.com. Locating underground utilities are a frequent service performed by the GPR technicians at Ground Penetrating Radar Systems, LLC.