What Is Hydro Excavation?

This type of excavation is also call "Vacuum Excavation", "Potholing",  "Hydro-digging", "Hydro-trenching" or "Soft- digging". The basic process is always the same, pressurized water or air and vacuum source to remove the material.

Hydro Excavation is the science of digging with water. Our self-contained trucks dig with 2000-3000 PSI water, forced through a steel lance and small stationary or rotating nozzles.

We then vacuum the resulting water and soil slurry through an eight inch vacuum line into a debris tank to be dumped at the end of the day.

Our excavations are clean, precise and ready for inspecting or whatever further work is required, and our operators are thoroughly safety-trained.

We uncover pipeline, phone lines, fiber optics and anything else buried up to 30 feet underground - quickly, safely and without damaging any expensive or hazardous lines.

We do potholing, slot trenching or whatever non-destructive excavation services are needed - even swimming pools. We can also dig up to 250 feet away if need be.

Hydro Excavation is a non-mechanical and non-destructive process which combines pressurized water and a high flow of moving air to simultaneously excavate native soils at a controlled rate. The solid and water slurry are conveyed via a 8" tube to a truck-mounted debris tank. This process allows for quick, clean and precise evacuations which require less backfill, less labour force, less restoration and less environmental impact that conventional digging methods. A controlled flow water stream allows for surgeon-like accuracy. While removing only material necessary for repair or inspection minimal material needs to be removed when compared with the large less-than accurate excavator or back hoe bucket.