Governor Proclaims Safe Digging Month

Safe Digging Month

2025

By The Governor Of The State Of North Carolina

A Proclamation

Whereas, the State of North Carolina encourages people to contact the North Carolina 811 Center to locate underground lines prior to digging; and

Whereas, each year, North Carolina’s underground utility infrastructure is jeopardized by unintentional damage done by those who failed to contact 811 before digging, causing service interruption, damage to the environment, personal injury, and even death; and

Whereas, by calling 811 to request utility line location, individuals throughout our state can help to reduce damages and improve efficiency of our communities' infrastructure; and

Whereas, the North Carolina 811 Center performs a public service by offering free assistance to all businesses and residents in North Carolina through education about safe digging practices, and by providing a convenient means of communications between the excavating public and member utilities; and

Whereas, excavators and individuals can save time and money by contacting 811 in advance of any project, waiting the required amount of time, respecting the marked lines by maintaining visual definition throughout the course of the excavation, and digging with care; and

Whereas, the State of North Carolina joins the North Carolina 811 Center in encouraging all parties to “know what's below,” contact 811 before every dig for safer and stronger communities across our state;

Now, Therefore, I, Josh Stein, Governor of the State of North Carolina, do hereby proclaim April 2025, as “Safe Digging Month” in North Carolina, and commend its observance to all citizens.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Great Seal of the State of North Carolina at the Capitol in Raleigh this nineteenth day of March in the year of our Lord two thousand and twenty-fifth and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-ninth.