When one has a directional boring company, using outside services for locating and creating the holes for the drilling machines can get costly. Kevin Reardon found a way to handle that — he branched off his California Boring company and helped to launch two subsidiaries.
Reardon founded California Boring in 1993 as a saw cutting business but expanded into boring in 1995. Also in 1995, he founded California Auger Boring. In 2010, Reardon’s wife Jennifer and California Boring president Sarah Gutierrez founded the second subsidiary, California Locating Services.
“All the companies work together on the job site, but they are kept separate,” Reardon says. “Each cost, each payroll, each company can be individually managed to be specialized in its area.”
California Locating Services provides locating and video inspection of sewer and storm drainlines of various sizes. “We have extensive experience that ranges from a single house or business location using our push camera method, to entire neighborhood or city projects using our lateral launch method,” says Gutierrez.
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The company offers sewer and storm drain locating and CCTV inspection. For inspection, crews use the LISY lateral launch camera system from RapidView/IBAK. The steerable pan and tilt system will inspect 4-inch and larger lateral lines from the mainline.
Reardon says California Auger Boring offers experience in both engineering and construction phases of trenchless pipeline crossings.
Read the full profile on California Boring in the July/August 2015 issue of Dig Different.
