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UER Forum > Archived UE Tutorials, Lessons, and Useful Info > Drain Street markings? (Viewed 1039 times) Ranar  Location: norcal Gender: Male  |  Drain Street markings? < on 10/29/2007 9:43 PM >   Does anyone know what the spray painted markings on the street mean. I assume it has something to do with drains and stuff just wondering if anyone has a list. The only one that I can think of is "USA" there are some others that I have seen but can't remember. I'll see if I ca get a pic Witek  Location: Everywhere. Gender: Male onwards.  |  |  Re: Drain Street markings? <Reply # 1 on 10/30/2007 12:36 AM >   Not always drains, lots of the time they're used to map out elevations, coordinates, datum points and mostly electrical/tv/phone wires for surveyors and contractors. V-tech = V-Tek = Veetek = Witek. Make it count, say it right. don cornelius  This member has been banned. See the banlist for more information. Location: Your asshole. Proud Parent  |  |  Re: Drain Street markings? <Reply # 2 on 10/30/2007 2:04 AM >   spray paint is used very often to tell where utilities are located. 40+ year olds with Myspace pages are not cool, they are pediphiles on the prowl. Buyer beware. Ranar  Location: norcal Gender: Male  |  Re: Drain Street markings? <Reply # 3 on 10/30/2007 2:23 AM >   Posted by Witek Not always drains, lots of the time they're used to map out elevations, coordinates, datum points and mostly electrical/tv/phone wires for surveyors and contractors. yeah but it'd be great to have a list of them or if anyone knows the official name for them secretdestroyers  Location: Baltimore Gender: Male  |  |  Re: Drain Street markings? <Reply # 4 on 10/30/2007 9:12 AM >   i'll see if i can get some pics but from what i can tell, and this is most likely not universal and the colors can and may also be use for other things. orange = steam blue = drain red = tunnel / room F this I"m going exploring! Explorer Zero   |  |  Re: Drain Street markings? <Reply # 5 on 10/30/2007 11:51 AM >   In DFW the only color scheme that seems to appear with any regularity is a bright flourescent green used by Dallas Water Utilities, Im sure they bought 144000 cases of the stuff. Contractors and other utility digging up service companies use whatever, usually day-glo orange or pink and it washes away after a few months. When the fiber optic contractors came through a few years ago boring under sidewalks and driveways with their water jets they painted everything including peoples lawns. micro  Gender: Male Slowly I turned  |  Re: Drain Street markings? <Reply # 6 on 10/30/2007 2:57 PM >   While each region might have their own particular set of standards, this is the international code that's most commonly used: Red = electric Blue = potable water Yellow = gas, oil, steam Green = sewer, storm drain Orange = communication Pink = temporary survey markings White = proposed excavation tholcomb  Location: Chattanooga, TN Gender: Male Captain Baghead!  |  Re: Drain Street markings? <Reply # 7 on 10/30/2007 8:34 PM >   If I would've seen this before 4th block I would've asked the guys from TDOT. NextelCupMK  This member has been banned. See the banlist for more information. Location: Waltham, Mass and Athenry, Galway Donkey Could KICK the ASS out of Action's monkey  |  |  |  Re: Drain Street markings? <Reply # 8 on 10/30/2007 8:59 PM >   I bet the U.s's are different, because we have a federal board that directs all the marking for any job that requires digging (water services, drainage, ect.) spunking cock Ranar  Location: norcal Gender: Male  |  Re: Drain Street markings? <Reply # 9 on 11/2/2007 2:15 AM >   EDIT: NM forgot that I can only edit in the first 24 hours [last edit 11/2/2007 2:16 AM by Ranar - edited 1 times] Atomic-Lard  Location: Twin Cities Gender: Male Not your typical junkie.  |  |  Re: Drain Street markings? <Reply # 10 on 11/2/2007 9:57 PM >   Posted by micro Green = sewer, storm drain Green is usually sanitary and storm drains the manholes are labeled as such with words, in my area at least. "your songs give the saints diarrhea." -1eye yokes  Location: Toronto Gender: Male I aim to misbehave  |  |  |  Re: Drain Street markings? <Reply # 11 on 11/2/2007 10:17 PM >   Brown - someone stepped in it "Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men." - Richard Nickel optik  This member has been banned. See the banlist for more information. Location: Twin Cities, MN Gender: Male  |  |  Re: Drain Street markings? <Reply # 12 on 11/4/2007 5:02 AM >   Pink and white are unofficially interchangeable for any sort of surveying or notations or planned excavation or sidewalk/street repair or for proposed routes for new lines. Orange could be telephone or cable-tv. Also, alot of the cool tunnels are deep enough to not be hit by digging, which is what most survey markings are done for, so they don't always get marked. T-mac  Location: Winnipeg, MB, Canada Gender: Male  |  |  Re: Drain Street markings? <Reply # 13 on 11/5/2007 4:51 PM >   Just down my street they have the street all marked up with orange and yellow marks. And there is a bunch of big metal drain/sewer piped and some of those blueish green pipes laying around. I think i found something worth exploring - Right at the end of my street! Lord  above and beyond  |  Re: Drain Street markings? <Reply # 14 on 11/5/2007 4:51 PM >   hmm It seems like EVERY manhole is being painted all around everywhere I go.. same with everyone else? I will defeat that which was once untouchable only so that I may now move on micro  Gender: Male Slowly I turned  |  Re: Drain Street markings? <Reply # 15 on 11/5/2007 4:57 PM >   I think they usually do that if they're about to take up the asphalt. When this happens the lids sit higher on the ground and I guess they paint the edges to prevent workers from tripping/driving over them. At least that seems to be the case here in Montreal. Witek  Location: Everywhere. Gender: Male onwards.  |  |  Re: Drain Street markings? <Reply # 16 on 11/5/2007 8:33 PM >   I've noticed that some manholes are painted blue around here in ottawa. Not sure if it's related to the water system or moreso that lawnmower people don't hit them. V-tech = V-Tek = Veetek = Witek. Make it count, say it right. optik  This member has been banned. See the banlist for more information. Location: Twin Cities, MN Gender: Male  |  |  Re: Drain Street markings? <Reply # 17 on 11/6/2007 4:15 AM >   Greenish plastic pipe...up to about 3"-10" diameters...is probably going to be for natural gas or water. The yellow markings generally mean natural gas. Twystr  Location: 39.2N, 104.17W Elev. 6535ft Gender: Male Gimme Biggah Drayyyyynes!  |  Re: Drain Street markings? <Reply # 18 on 11/25/2007 12:47 AM >   The bell-ended pvc pipes are used for water (blue or white typically) and drain/sewer as green pipe sections. It is quite typical to see a stack of either blue or white next to a stack of green pipes just prior to the city/county/state extending their pipelines along a new development, or as replacement for cast iron/lead/steel "The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either." -Ben Franklin defrab  Location: Waterloo, Ontario Gender: Male  |  Re: Drain Street markings? <Reply # 19 on 4/11/2008 12:19 PM >   Wikipedia has a decent page on it: http://en.wikipedi...Utility_color_code And here are some sample markings: http://www.apwa.ne...ing_Guidelines.pdf Hopefully that will be enough to start understanding them. 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