Preventing Disaster When Doing Directional Drilling

Cooperation between utilities, municipalities and contractors can prevent disaster.

Preventing Disaster When Doing Directional Drilling

Directional drilling is a fast and efficient way to install underground pipe and conduit, but when a gas line is bored through a sewer lateral, disaster can ensue.

Cross bores — when a line bores through a sewer line — has been the cause of catastrophic events in the past. As a...

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