Know who to call.
Before you dig.
NZ's open utility operator directory. Pin your worksite, find every power, water, gas and comms operator that serves the area, and jump straight to their locate-request page.
No credit card. No membership. Map your first site in 30 seconds.
Ask. Wait. Hope.
NZ's default for finding utilities is a request form, an inbox, and a mental jigsaw — every time you need to know.
- 5–10 working days
Each operator processes locate requests on their own clock. Plans dribble in over weeks.
- A folder of PDFs
Different formats, scales, colours. You're left mentally overlaying eight separate documents.
- Quote without seeing
Pricing a job? You can't justify a 10-day wait every time you cost an estimate.
- Skip the locate, hope for the best
Small jobs feel disproportionate to the request process. That's where strikes happen.
Three steps. Thirty seconds.
From dig-curious to dig-confident — without sending a single email.
Pin your worksite
Drop a pin anywhere in NZ — your project address, a postcode, or a click on the map.
See every operator that serves the area
Power, water, gas and comms operators surface on one map — so you know exactly who to contact for a locate.
Contact operators · share with your crew
Get phone numbers, locate-request links and a shareable map URL. Send to your team, your client, your inspector.
Locate without the wait.
- Submit a formal request
- Wait for each operator to respond
- Receive 6–12 separate PDFs
- Manually overlay them yourself
- Repeat for every new site
- Pin your worksite on the map
- See every operator serving the area
- All utility types in one directory
- Direct locate-request links per operator
- Shareable link to your dig plan
UtilityFinder doesn't replace BeforeUDig or your obligation to request a formal locate from each operator before excavation. It's the directory and planning layer that sits in front of those steps — so you know who to contact and don't miss anyone.
129 operators. 16 regions.
Every region in New Zealand, every category of utility operator. Find the lines company, council water network, gas distributor or fibre provider that serves your address — with contact details and locate-request links in one place.
Avoiding costly mistakes, cheaply.
Free for everyone, always. Power-user features for the price of a flat white.
Free
Initial scoping & finding the operators that serve your area.
- Operator directory by region
- Operator contact details
- Locate-request links per operator
Explorer
Plan and share your worksite with the full operator picture.
- Everything in Free
- Filter operators by utility type
- Operator details at a glance
- Shareable map link for your crew
Map your worksite in 30 seconds.
Free to start. No card required. The fastest way to find every operator serving your project — and the fastest way to make sure none get missed before you dig.
NZ's open utility operator directory
UtilityFinder is an open directory of New Zealand's utility operators — the lines companies, council three-waters networks, reticulated gas distributors and telecommunications carriers responsible for the cables and pipes under your worksite. Pin an address and we'll surface every operator that serves the area, with their contact details and locate-request page in one place.
Find the operators that serve your worksite
Whether you're a builder pricing a renovation, a landscaper digging fence-post holes, a council planner scoping a 3-waters upgrade or a homeowner planting a tree, UtilityFinder helps you identify which operators you need to contact before excavation. Where operators publish their own asset GIS publicly, we link to it; where they don't, we link straight to their locate-request page so you can start a formal request in seconds.
Built for every NZ region
The directory spans every NZ region: Northland, Auckland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Gisborne, Hawke's Bay, Taranaki, Manawatū-Whanganui, Wellington, Tasman, Nelson, Marlborough, West Coast, Canterbury, Otago and Southland. Browse by region or operator to find the lines company, council water network, gas distributor or fibre provider serving your area.
Why a directory matters
Cable and pipe strikes are New Zealand's most common — and most expensive — site safety incident. The vast majority happen on small jobs where the contractor never requested formal locate plans, often because they didn't know who operated in the area. By making it easy to find every operator in seconds, UtilityFinder lowers the friction so even the smallest jobs notify the right people before the first spade hits the ground. Always submit a formal locate request via BeforeUDig or directly to each operator before you excavate.