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Ontario Regional Common Ground Alliance (ORCGA)

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Overview

The Ontario Regional Common Ground Alliance (ORCGA) is an organization promoting efficient and effective damage prevention for Ontario’s vital underground infrastructure. Through a unified approach and stakeholder consensus, ORCGA fulfills its motto of "Working Together for a Safer Ontario". We are a growing organization with over 450 organizations as active members and sponsors, and represent a wide cross section of stakeholders including: Oil & Gas Distribution Equipment & Suppliers Landscape/Fencing Transmission Pipeline One-Call Telecommunications Road Builders Insurance Excavator Safety Organization Regulator Municipal & Public Works Homebuilders Locator Electrical Distribution Engineering Land Surveying Railway Electrical Transmission For over a decade these stakeholder groups have been active in promoting "Call Before You Dig" and other good damage prevention practices through smaller separate entities which have come together and amalgamated under the ORCGA name to provide a single voice representing the damage prevention community in the province. The ORCGA has been a regional chapter of the Common Ground Alliance based in Alexandria, VA since April 2003.