Gopher State One Call

Gopher State One Call is the one-call notification system established to inform all Minnesota underground facility operators of intended excavation. A communication link between the excavator and the underground facility owner, it has increased public safety while decreasing underground facility damage, monetary loss, and personal injury by coordinating the locating of underground facilities.

Gopher State One Call, a nonprofit organization, grew out of a response to a serious pipeline accident in the northern Twin Cities in July of 1986. Following this accident, Minnesota Governor Rudy Perpich created the Minnesota Commission on Pipeline Safety to review and recommend law and/or changes at the federal and state levels that would enhance public safety. In 1987 the Minnesota Legislature mandated a Commission recommendation for a centralized statewide information processing center to relay excavation notices to excavators and underground facility operators.