City of Lawrenceville Damage Prevention and Risk Management

04/08/2026

03/27/2026

National Safe Digging Month (April)
During National Safe Digging Month, our department works with Georgia 811 to raise awareness about underground utility safety and damage prevention. Throughout the month, we share safety information, participate in community outreach, and encourage residents to always contact 811 before starting digging or landscaping projects.

10/31/2025

• On Thursday, October 30th, Damage Prevention hosted the Georgia Utility Coordinating Committee’s (GUCC) meeting for Gwinnett County. We invited guest speakers from the Georgia Public Service Commission, Michelle Thebert, Director of the Facilities Protection Unit, Jeff Baggett, Supervisor of Pipeline Safety and Will Culbreath, Case Manager for GUFPA (Georgia Underground Facility Protection Act). We were planning for a high turnout of around fifty representatives from the excavating, locating and utility owner community. We had 80 RSVP and most attended. Included were representatives from Comcast, Gwinnett County Water, Jackson EMC, Charter, Brigham Cable, Lumos Fiber, Vector Force Development, T2 Utility Engineers, Gunter Construction, Williams Gas Pipeline, Southern Company, Georgia Power, Norcross Power, Walton EMC, Gwinnett Place CID, and Georgia 811. Awesome turnout and great meeting!

08/22/2025

08/08/2025

Reminder about Overhead Safety!

06/09/2025

Excellence!

After severe weather came through, many were without power throughout the night. Please give a big thank you to the Electric, Police, and Street teams who worked around the clock to restore power, respond to hazards, and clear fallen trees.

Thank you for your patience as our crews worked to respond to the outages as quickly as possible.

05/30/2025

On Thursday, 05/29/2025, the City of Lawrenceville Public Works hosted the Gwinnett chapter of the Georgia Utilities Coordinating Council (GUCC). We had a record turnout of 40+ stakeholders from the utility, excavating, locating and damage prevention industry. The presentation about the dangers of underground utility cross bores was given by Danny Boswell, Director of Corporate Compliance & Development, Gunter Construction Company.

05/09/2025

Yesterday, 05/09/2025, the City of Lawrenceville Damage Prevention department participated in Georgia 811’s Digger Dog show at Sharon Elementary School in Loganville, Georgia. In attendance were 130 4th grade students and their teachers. Damage Prevention Specialist, Elder Jaimes, gave a demonstration of how to locate the underground natural gas.

04/30/2025

Today we celebrated national "April is Safe Digging Month". Khanh Nguyen and Michael Sackmann received recognition for excellence in locating the City's underground gas and power utilities. Khanh was recognized for leading the office in number of locate requests marked while having zero at-fault damages attributed to locating. Michael was recognized for not only meeting his goal of lowering his last year's at-fault damages by half, but surpassed his goal by lowering them to zero. These key performance indicators were measured from 04/01/24 – 03/31/25. Special recognition and appreciation to the entire damage prevention team for continuous improvement in properly marking the underground utilities. The team received 31,577 gas locate requests in 2024 and had a record low ten damages that were attributed to improper locating. This is our lowest damage to locate ratio in ten years. Congratulations to the Damage Prevention team!