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Now Open: 2025 Calendar Photo Contest

Kentucky 811 is excited to announce the 2025 Calendar Photo Contest! We are inviting photographers of all levels to capture and submit photos that showcase the quintessential beauty and spirit of Kentucky. The top 12 photos will be featured in our official 2025 calendar. Additionally, the top three winners, chosen by our panel of judges, will receive prizes. See below for the official submission guidelines and rules.

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October 9, 2024

Now Open: 2025 Calendar Photo Contest

Kentucky 811 is excited to announce the 2025 Calendar Photo Contest! We are inviting photographers of all levels to capture and submit photos that showcase the quintessential beauty and spirit of Kentucky. The top 12 photos will be featured in our official 2025 calendar. Additionally, the top three winners, chosen by our panel of judges, will receive prizes. See below for the official submission guidelines and rules.

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September 23, 2024

2025 Safety Connection

October 20–22, 2025
Lexington, KY – Lexington Marriott City Center

Join us for Kentucky’s premier underground facility damage prevention and excavation safety conference.

2025 Safety Connection Details

July 12, 2024

2024 Kentucky 811 Annual Report: Now Available

The 2024 Kentucky 811 Annual Report is now available! The variety of work completed over the last year has been instrumental to our organization’s continued success, and we’re excited to share the impact with you. Covering everything KY811, the report includes an organization chart, current membership stats, operations activity and efficiencies, financial information, and education/outreach efforts. Click the button below to access it now.

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Reflecting on the 2024 Kentucky 811 Damage Prevention Summit

The 2024 Kentucky 811 Damage Prevention summit was wildly successful! Damage prevention professionals traveled from all over the country to join us at Embassy Suites Lexington for three days focused on industry updates, safety education, and networking. Click here or the button below to see photos from this year’s event.

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June 4, 2024

How to Update KY 811 Member Notification Areas & Maps

Kentucky 811 understands how important of a role up-to-date member notification areas and base maps play in keeping our state’s underground infrastructure safe from excavation-related damages. Because of this, we’ve worked with One Call Concepts (OCC) to make the process for updating both notification area polygons and base maps easier than ever before. Keep reading for ways to help keep this information up to date.

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April 18, 2024

FREE On-Site Damage Prevention Training Available

At Kentucky 811, we believe that safe digging education and training is vital to preventing damages and keeping our communities safe. That’s why we go the extra mile to ensure your organization is well versed in the latest dig laws, safety practices, and Kentucky 811 services through free on-site trainings.

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FREE 811 Promo Items

Need promotional items for your next event or giveaway? With options ranging from color code hard hat stickers to carpenter pencils, the KY 811 store has you covered with a wide variety of 811 promo items and swag to spread the safe digging message.

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April 17, 2024

Kentucky 811 Magazine

Official news, updates, and more from Kentucky 811

Have you signed up to receive the Kentucky 811 Magazine? Get the latest news and updates about damage prevention in KY sent right to your inbox.

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January 3, 2024

Webinar Wednesdays: ITICnxt Live Demos

During Webinar Wednesdays, Kentucky 811 and One Call Concepts, Inc. (OCC) host live demonstrations of our cutting-edge ticket submission software, ITICnxt. Designed for professional excavators, this efficient map-first web system is optimized to make creating and managing locate requests online easier than ever before.

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November 7, 2023

KY811’s Public Awareness & Damage Prevention Managers

Did you know that Kentucky 811 has two public awareness and damage prevention managers? Patrick Donoghue and Ms. Jamie Gaddis travel around the state providing outreach to utility companies – both members and non-members – and educating Kentuckians of all ages and backgrounds about safe digging at community events.

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