JULIE works to prevent damage to Illinois underground utilities by connecting homeowners and professional excavators with member utility companies via our free and easy facility notification center.

Contact JULIE before you dig and stay safe. We perform the vital role of connecting homeowners like you with utility companies so they can mark their underground lines and indicate where it’s safe to dig.

Enter your own information directly into the locate request form using the same maps and drop‑down tools as JULIE agents. Add attachments (photos or maps of the proposed dig area) — available …

Starting January 1, 2026, all new and replaced service laterals must be locatable. Learn what this means for your utility and how JULIE can help you stay compliant and protect underground …

JULIE has been protecting Illinois communities for more than 50 years by providing a free notification service for professional excavators and homeowners to use to request the location of underground …

Always contact JULIE at least 3 days—but not more than 10 days—before you plan to start digging. When making a locate request, remember that the day of the request, weekends and holidays are …

JULIE was established to be the communication center for professional excavators and homeowners working around underground utility facilities in Illinois, outside the City of Chicago.

JULIE’s Positive Response is a system that member utility companies will use to communicate the status of a locate request notification to the excavator through a series of codes.

JULIE works to prevent damage to Illinois underground utilities by connecting homeowners and professional excavators with member utility companies via our free and easy facility notification center.

All JULIE members and their subcontractors, when they are performing locating and marking of the approximate location of their underground lines for excavation work, shall provide this service at no …