One way to verify the location of such buried objects is to cautiously dig a trial pit to expose the object in question. However, digging such a pit in or close to a highway is costly because of the need for traffic control, and subsequent reinstatement of the surface to meet the original specification. There is also a substantial risk of accident and personal injury, partly due to the disruption caused to the highway traffic, and partly due to the nature of the work. Where mechanical digging equipment is used, an undocumented or misaligned utility line can easily be damaged if the excavation workers do not observe it. Gas and electricity lines present very obvious safety threats in this situation.
These factors have caused utility engineers and contractors to search for alternative methods to locate subsurface structures, often with mixed success. There are several geophysical techniques with proven capabilities in non-intrusive subsurface investigation, but there are less publicized limitations to these methods that potential specifies and users should be aware of if they are to avoid inconclusive or misleading survey reports.
Practical Near-Surface Techniques
The real driving force behind the development of geophysical survey methods was the search for oil and other valuable mineral deposits. The earlier methods were therefore primarily focused on the detection and identification of relatively large geological formations at depths that were typically measured in several hundreds of feet. Such methods do not have the resolution to detect small objects, such as pipelines and cables, buried only a few feet deep.
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