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The receiving site of the directional drill bore included two barges that had to fit a mud recycling system, long-reach excavators and a crane. The receiving pit was in the middle of Wheeler Lake in Alabama.
You start on one side of an obstacle and shoot underneath to the other side: That’s how horizontal directional drilling typically works. However, when the bore needs to end in the middle of a lake, things get tricky.
Garney Construction, a national contractor headquartered in...
