Rising buried utility damage signals need for industry-wide changes, per CGA report
Common Ground Alliance (CGA) is a nonprofit trade association working to prevent damage to buried infrastructure. The organization published its 2024 Damage Information Reporting Tool (DIRT) Report, which measures the year-over-year damage trends, known as the CGA Index. Damage trends rose from 94.0 in 2023 to 96.7 in 2024, signalling that the industry is moving in the wrong direction in reducing damage to buried utilities. 2024 DIRT Report
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Common Ground Alliance (CGA) is a nonprofit trade association working to prevent damage to buried infrastructure. The organization published its 2024 Damage Information Reporting Tool (DIRT) Report, which measures the year-over-year damage trends, known as the CGA Index. Damage trends rose from 94.0 in 2023 to 96.7 in 2024, signalling that the industry is moving in the wrong direction in reducing damage to buried utilities.
2024 DIRT Report
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