Image credits

The photos on this site illustrate the method and the region. They do not show our work or crews, because we do not do the digging.

Photos and marks

8 entries

  • Utility 'potholing' along the American River

    By U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District. Public domain (US federal government work). Source on Wikimedia Commons. Used as the home page photo, the potholing crew photo and the share image, as an illustration of the method.

  • Tranchees avec excavatrice-aspiratrice

    By Mickaƫl Lucas. Public domain (PDM 1.0). Source on Wikimedia Commons.

  • MTS - MAN suction excavator (1)

    By Cjp24. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source on Wikimedia Commons.

  • UG utility locate 5th and B (San Diego)

    By Mds08011. Licensed CC BY 4.0. Source on Wikimedia Commons.

  • Easton Utilities Fiber Optic Cable Work Demonstration

    By USDA (USDAgov). Public domain (US federal government work). Source on Wikimedia Commons.

  • Bakersfield Field Office oil derrick

    By Bureau of Land Management California (blmcalifornia). Public domain (US federal government work). Source on Wikimedia Commons.

  • Oil field in the Bakersfield Field Office

    By Bureau of Land Management California (blmcalifornia), photo by Erin Schmitt. Public domain (US federal government work). Source on Wikimedia Commons.

  • Site mark

    A yellow ground with an ink circle, drawn for this site. Own work.

How the photos are used

All photos come from Wikimedia Commons under licences that allow commercial use. They were resized and recompressed; the circular crops are done in the page styling, not in the files. None of them shows work done by this site or by the operators it refers, and none is captioned as our crew.

The potholing photo shows a branded vacuum unit and the staff of a public agency in the background. It illustrates the method only. The share-alike licence on the suction excavator photo applies to that file, so any edited copy of it must be released under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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