UTILITY-SAFE EXCAVATION AND EXPLORATION

When gasoline or chemicals migrate from a leak source beneath a busy street and accumulate around various utilities, the risk of serious consequences may warrant immediate action to mitigate any safety hazards. Damage to delicate underground infrastructure such as telephone cables, fiber optics and wiring, and municipal sewer lines can also cause serious problems. Orion-SurgEx can safely open the roadway, and expose every underground utility without risking further damage from blind mechanical impact, from either excavators or hand tools like picks and shovels. Once all utilities have been exposed and accounted for, the cutting crew will begin ramping up the solids recovery process and extract the bulk of contaminant saturated soils from around the buried utilities. Orion-SurgEx will also install any capture mechanisms required to manage residual or chronic impact from migrating contaminants.

Typical UTILITY-SAFETY Response Unit

Even in situations where contamination is not present, Surgical Excavation^® can be a highly effective safety-preservation protocol to locate and expose sensitive infrastructure and buried utilities. Anytime a buried utility requires maintenance, replacement, or repair, Surgical Excavation^® is the safest, most reliable way to excavate and expose the target area for servicing.

“Potholing”, or pre-clearing proposed drilling and sampling sites before steel rotary tools are blindly advanced below the surface has become standard operating procedure for many companies in the industry. Orion-SurgEx runs a scheduled service route just for pre-drilling clearance operations throughout our operating region.