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The article focuses on the problem associated with the water line replacement project in the U.S. It informs about an accident which occur in Park Forest, Illinois, when a contractor struck a steel gas service while replacing a section of water system. It further states that if people have knowledge about the underground system, they can protect the system from excavation damages.

The article focuses on an incident in which house of the director of public works and water in the village of Indian head park, Illinois, in the U.S., Ed Santen was filled with waste water due to damaged sewer line and also suggests that not locating sewage laterals before digging can be deadly.

The article presents views on the person responsible for the Spiller's Pay, a local ordinance that requires excavators to pay municipalities' expenses for sending emergency responders to gas line damages in Chicago, Illinois. The first cites a hypothetical situation involving a telephone company crew which calls in a ticket for installing 1,000 feet of duct in a municipally-owned public right of way. The second claims that the excavator would pay costs associated with a damage.