Colorado 811 Membership

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.

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Three Classes of Colorado 811 Membership:

Underground Facility Owner and Operator Member. In accordance with the Colorado Excavation Requirements Law (commonly known as the Colorado One-Call Law), the UNCC Articles of Incorporation of the Corporation, and UNCC 811 Bylaws.
Excavator Member. To qualify as a member of the Excavator class of membership, the entity or individual applying for membership shall be primarily engaged in underground excavation in the State of Colorado, and such entity or individual shall not be eligible to be an Owner/Operator Member (if the entity or individual is eligible to be an Owner/Operator Member, its membership will be in the Owner/Operator Member class).
Sustaining Member. Are entities, organizations or individuals who have an interest in the purposes and function of the Corporation, and such an entity, organization or individual shall not be eligible to be an Owner/Operator Member or an Excavator Member.

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
Excavator
Sustaining Member

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.
A mobile application is available for reviewing locate tickets and submitting Positive Responses.
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.
Annual Damage Prevention Summit and Expo Conference
Excavator Education Breakfast Events
Colorado 811 Branded Give-a-ways to integrate into your promotions (as available).

Membership FAQ’S

What is the Colorado 811 Billing and Locate Fee Assessment Model?

Colorado 811 bills Annual Ticket Transmission Fees in an annual Assessment and Billing Model for ticket transmission fees and invoicing. Learn more here.

What is a Automatic Positive Response Re-Notification (delivered as a Late ticket type)?

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. 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.

Are Automatic Positive Response Re-Notification (delivered as a Late ticket type) a chargeable transmission?

Yes, all Automatic Positive Response Re-Notifications, late tickets, are billed on a per transmission basis, please see ticket fees for per transmission cost.

Alternative Dispute Resolution

Colorado 811 has an Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) program available to all facility owners/operators, excavators, and other interested parties regarding disputes arising from damage to underground facilities. For more information about Alternative Dispute Resolution visit this page.

Am I required to be a member?

Colorado State Law, Colorado Revised Statutes 2022, Title 9-Safety-Industrial and Commercial, Article 1.5 Excavation Requirements requires all underground facility owners/operators in Colorado to be a member of Colorado 811. No other member type is required to be a member of Colorado 811.

What are the levels of membership offered?

There are three types of membership offered at Colorado 811, Facility Owner/Operator Membership, Sustaining Membership, and Excavator Membership.

What is the difference between Owner/Operator members and Excavator members?

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 that allows the excavating company registering to nominate two (2) excavator members to represent Excavators on the Underground Damage Prevention Safety Commission as well as access to the Expedite website.

What is the Excavator Membership?

How much does it cost to get registered?

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.

Is the $150.00 application & administrative fee a yearly fee?

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.

As a member am I required to post Positive Response?

Facility owner/operator members and Sustaining Members are required to post Positive Responses through the Colorado 811 Positive Response system.

Who is responsible for marking lines?

It is the responsibility of the facility owner/operator to identify and/or locate their underground facilities. CO811 is a communications link only and does not perform any type of locating services.

Contact Member Relations

The Member Relations department is responsible for managing member contact information, notification area data, and maintaining the mapping used by online services.

The Member Relations department is available Monday through Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and can be reached at 303-232-1991 or member-services@co811.org.

If you are new to membership, require help with an existing membership, or have a GIS-related inquiry, please contact the Member Relations Department