Utility Locating in Plano, TX
Plano built out decades ago, and that is exactly the problem. The Legacy corridor and the commercial strips along Central and the tollway are now in their second and third generation of tenants, and every remodel and repurpose left utilities behind that nobody drew.
Redevelopment ground: everything is already down there
Unlike the greenfield suburbs north of it, Plano's dirt work happens on land that has already been developed once or twice. Legacy business park, the Central Expressway corridor, and the older commercial strips carry decades of abandoned service, re-routed feeds, and tenant improvements that never made it onto a drawing.
Under all of it sits Blackland Prairie clay, which swells and shrinks with the seasons and gradually walks buried lines away from their recorded depth and alignment. On a redevelopment site, the record drawing is a starting hypothesis at best.
- Redevelopment sites carrying two or three generations of buried service
- Abandoned lines left in place through past tenant build-outs
- Expansive Blackland clay shifting lines off recorded positions
- Dense corridors along Legacy, Central, and the tollway frontage
- Campus-scale corporate properties where 811 stops at the meter
