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Ground penetrating radar (GPR) has reached an amazing level of sophistication. Just ask Colission Wells.Wells, who is the owner and CEO of...

In utility work, accuracy is everything. More accuracy means less risk.The Subsite Electronics UtiliGuard utility locating system’s AIM automatically scans the surrounding...

When customers call Davids Hydro Vac, they know exactly what they’ll get, no matter which of the company’s four workhorses roll onto...

Brent Bossio wanted a challenge, but he wasn’t getting it working for someone else’s hydroexcavation company. He wanted to move his career...

One of the big misconceptions in the “locating” world is that 811 finds everything. However, any utility beyond the service meter is...

Locating underground utilities is becoming more of a challenge as the vast array of lines in the ground continues to increase. As...

A contractor lowering the basement floor of a historic mansion in Ogden, Utah, inspected the 6-inch clay lateral as part of dropping the...

People have long searched for things underground: Water, food, metals, minerals, gems and fuel were early targets. Divining rods, aka dowsing rods,...

“We have a great name to protect,” says Tim Rogers, plumbing service technician in charge of sewer and drain cleaning operations at...

The National Park Service was modernizing cabins and rehabilitating the wastewater infrastructure in Glacier National Park in Columbia Falls, Montana. HK Contractors...

Blasthole drillers can handle up to three rigs in parallel while working at a safe distance from the high wall with the...

Barry Wood has seen his company evolve since it was started nearly two decades ago. One thing has never changed — being...

Conventional wisdom says the middle of a recession is the wrong time to start a business. For Richard Young, co-owner of Hydro...

Hydroexcavation has grown considerably in the Greater Toronto Area, but the quality and skills of those services worry Ontario Excavac CEO Barry...

US Radar Inc., a leading manufacturer of subsurface imaging systems, has begun production of its Q5 Series, a new line of ground-penetrating...

At the beginning of the Civil War, Union soldiers occupied Arlington, Va., realizing that the location offered a great strategic location, just...

When Rick Marucci invests in equipment for Lake County Sewer Co. Inc., the trenchless sewer rehabilitation firm he founded in 1980, he...