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Mississippi 2024 Locate Rodeo
Southern University, Compliance EnviroSystems, Custom Locating Services, Ditch Witch Mid-South, Green Equipment Company, Gulf Atlantic Supply, Irth Solutions, Kinder Morgan, LineQuest, Miller Pipeline, Mississippi Rural Water Association, Mississippi 811, Navigation Electronics, Inc, Norfield, OSHA, Paradigm, PHMSA, Rust-Oleum, Submar, T. Baker Smith,
LLC, T.L. Wallace Construction, Tri-State Utility Contractors, Inc, United Systems and Software, Inc, USIC, Utility Solutions Supply/Vivax-Metrotech, Utility Training Academy, Utilocate and Vermeer MidSouth.
The Mississippi 811 and Damage Prevention Summit team appreciate your sponsorship and willingness to exhibit at this premier event. This is the one annual show that brings all stakeholders together to discuss better ways of working together to drive damages down in Mississippi. Progress is being made and by sponsoring and exhibiting you help make it possible. Let us know how we can make this event even better for you.
Thanks again to all who participated in this year’s Summit.
We hope to see you next year back at IP in Biloxi for the 2025 Damage Prevention Summit to see what progress has been made as the result of your efforts this year!
Last month the first annual Locate Rodeo was held at
the MS Damage Prevention Summit. It was a great first event because of all the volunteers and competitors who participated. And a special thanks to Rust-Oleum for being the Hat sponsor, Mississippi 811, Kinder Morgan, Benchmark, CenterPoint Energy, Coast Electric, Utility Solutions Supply (Vivax-Metrotech), Green Equipment (Radiodetection), Subsite, DCL Construction, and T. Baker Smith. We are looking forward to next year!
The winners are:
Gas Division
Sheldon Schwalm - CenterPoint Energy
Power Division
William Norris - Coast Electric
Telecom Division
Jared Vanderweide - Magnolia Brothers
LFH Division
William Norris - Coast Electric
Overall Winners
First Place - Brad Sumrall - Magnolia Brothers Second Place - Jared Vanderweide - Magnolia Brothers
(Left) First Place Overall Winner Brad Sumrall Magnolia Brothers
(Right) Second Place Overall Winner Jared Vanderweide Magnolia Brothers
2024 Locate Rodeo Participants
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