Primary locate

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EC - retired
We, my help, were burying feeders to a grain bin yesterday. We knew we would be crossing a newly buried primary in schedule 40 PVC. IDK the voltage. The POCO had flagged the location and it was supposed to be +4’ down.

The POCOs flags were off by 18” and our equipment was off by 16”. We are usually directly over what we locate but I don’t remember every locating primary before. They brought out our locator when they hadn’t found the conduit under the POCOs flags.

What would be a reason for missing by such a large distance? An inductive clamp was used to apply the signal.

Yes, I know an 18” discrepancy is allowed.
 
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