Non- Intrusive Digging: Proven Cheaper and Safer at Enabling Access to Buried Services
Non-intrusive digging uses a highly controlled, variable pressure stream of water of up to 2,000 psi to break-up ground and soils, but does not hold enough force to damage pipes and cables. These soils are then removed by a high volume vacuum system to expose underground services and structures.
VES has used this excavation method across Western Australia , allowing it to gain popularity over conventional alternatives, largely due to to non-intrusive digging:
- Providing a clean and precise method of excavation, as it involves less material to remove, thus making it faster and cheaper than machine extraction,
- Reducing accidental line damage, sometimes enabling services to be located whilst online and consequently not requiring shutdown, loss of production or other inconveniences,
- Reducing damage risk to line casings and pipe coatings,
- Hoses can reach into areas whereas large excavators cannot,
- Reducing the risk of the caving in of trenches; and
- Performing major excavations in difficult areas for instance, backyard swimming pools etc.
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