Private utility locating in Vail, Colorado

Eagle Locates provides private underground utility locating, leak detection and sewer line scoping throughout Vail and the surrounding area, including Vail Village, Lionshead, East Vail, West Vail, Booth Creek, Potato Patch, Sandstone and Intermountain. We find the customer-owned lines that Colorado 811 does not mark — everything past the meter or point of service, where the responsibility falls on the property owner and the excavator.

What's underground in Vail

Snowmelt and glycol loops

Vail may have a higher density of heated driveways, walkways, entries and stairs than anywhere else in Colorado. Those loops are shallow, non-conductive, expensive, and almost never documented. Cutting one in October means a driveway comes apart before the first storm.

Layered generations of utility work

The town has been continuously built and rebuilt since the 1960s. Services get abandoned in place, rerouted around additions and spliced by whoever was on site that year. As-builts, where they exist at all, frequently describe a property that no longer matches what is in the ground.

Very tight lots and steep access

There is often no margin between a driveway, a foundation, a creek setback and a neighbor's line. When the working area is that narrow, knowing exactly where something runs is the difference between a job that fits and one that does not.

Gore Creek setbacks and stream tracts

Work near the creek carries its own constraints, and the utilities threading through those corridors deserve a careful hand before anything opens up.

Services in Vail

• Private utility locating — water, gas, electric, communications, sewer, irrigation, snowmelt and low-voltage
• Leak detection on buried water services, irrigation and snowmelt loops
• Sewer line scoping with the line located and marked from the surface
• Excavation and site work through Double D Resource Services
• Snow and ice management through Double D Snow Removal

Who calls us in Vail

Property management companies, remodel contractors, landscape and hardscape crews, snowmelt installers and homeowners planning work in the short Vail build season.