Utility Locating
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is a member of JULIE, the one call system in Illinois for excavators.
In accordance with state law, contact JULIE prior to any excavation at (800) 892-0123. Visit www.illinois1call.com for more information.
If damage occurs during excavating you are to call JULIE to submit an Emergency locate as the damage may not be a utility that belongs to the university.
This is a partial list of utilities that may have presence on the campus:
- Illinois American Water
- Ameren/Illinois Power
- Insight Communications
- SBC (formerly Ameritech)
- McLeod USA
- Urbana-Champaign Sanitary District
- City of Champaign
- City of Urbana
- Ameren/CIPS
- And others
The university operates the following utilities:
- Water
- Chiller Water
- Non Potable Water
- Steam
- Natural Gas
- Electricity
- Storm Sewer
- Sanitary Sewer
- Compressed Air
- Natural Gas Transmission Pipeline (between Savoy and Monticello, Illinois)
Related Providers
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Utilities & Energy Services 
Utilities & Energy Services (UES) is continuously upgrading to provide safe, reliable, environmentally compliant, cost-effective energy and other utilities to support campus.
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Planning, Design & Construction
Planning, Design & Construction directs capital projects with more than a $250,000 total project budget at the University of Illinois.
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Construction Services
Construction Services manages construction, remodeling, and renovation projects typically under $250,000. Some projects with costs exceeding that amount are delivered through the department, but these projects require additional approvals.
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Service Office
The Service Office processes service requests, outages, and utility locates for the campus. The Service Office receives more than 190 work requests per day and averages 10 outage requests and 15 locates per day.
