Denver Metro Damage Prevention Council
The Front Range's busiest excavation corridor — 632,000 locate requests a year, more than half of Colorado's total. DMDPC brings excavators, utility owners, locators, municipalities and Colorado 811 together to keep that volume moving safely.
632,044
Locate requests in 2024
53% of Colorado's statewide total
857
Damages reported
39% of the state's damages
1.36
Damages per 1,000 tickets
Better than the statewide 1.83 average
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Denver Metro Damage Prevention Council
The Front Range's busiest excavation corridor — 632,000 locate requests a year, more than half of Colorado's total. DMDPC brings excavators, utility owners, locators, municipalities and Colorado 811 together to keep that volume moving safely.
- Meetings
- Bi-monthly membership meetings, plus the annual Breakfast & TradeshowDenver metro area — see the events calendar
- Contact
- Neeley Duran · nduran@co811.org
- Counties (7)
- Adams · Arapahoe · Boulder · Broomfield · Denver · Douglas · Jefferson
Council, bi-monthly cadence, Breakfast & Tradeshow and $250–$2,000 sponsorships all verified via Colorado 811. The seven-county footprint follows the standard metro definition (DRCOG core); note Colorado 811 assigns Douglas to its Southern liaison region.
Counties served
Adams County
County seat: Brighton
Commerce City refining and rail corridors sit alongside some of the metro's fastest residential growth.
114,061 locate requests · 146 damages · 1.3 per 1,000
Arapahoe County
County seat: Littleton
The metro's highest damage count, on a county stretching from urban core to open eastern plains.
114,667 locate requests · 184 damages · 1.6 per 1,000
Boulder County
County seat: Boulder
Municipal utilities, university campuses and creek-corridor restoration concentrate excavation.
72,452 locate requests · 91 damages · 1.3 per 1,000
Broomfield County
County seat: Broomfield
Colorado's only consolidated city-county, and the safest in the metro at 0.4 damages per 1,000 tickets.
13,057 locate requests · 5 damages · 0.4 per 1,000
Denver County
County seat: Denver
The densest utility congestion in the state — century-old mains stacked beneath modern fiber and transit.
112,991 locate requests · 140 damages · 1.2 per 1,000
Douglas County
County seat: Castle Rock
Sustained greenfield development means constant new installs crossing existing transmission.
78,100 locate requests · 111 damages · 1.4 per 1,000
Jefferson County
County seat: Golden
Foothills terrain complicates locating, with rocky ground and steep grades along the hogback.
126,716 locate requests · 180 damages · 1.4 per 1,000