Read the pattern
Check current SPU notices, compare nearby properties, and record water at the street, meter setting, service route, building entry, or fixture. Observe displays without opening covers or breaking seals.
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Move from evidence to a bounded authorization
Hold the safety line
Do not enter traffic, unstable ground, excavations, or flooded electrical space. Public locating, traffic control, slope protection, and an authorized dig plan belong before excavation.
Place the Seattle boundary
SPU maintains the public portion through its service arrangement; the owner is responsible for the private line from the city union to the building. Exact field location still needs records and inspection.
Write the visit
Private locating work should identify the suspected segment, method, uncertainty, public handoff, access, surface assumptions, and the additional authorization required after a positive finding.
Keep the closing evidence
Retain the SPU response or case reference, location investigated, test conditions, responsibility finding if issued, private report, and every part left isolated. Avoid turning a wet patch into an ownership claim.
Current public source