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Consider the operating costs of running your company and the everyday decisions you make to avoid un-necessary spending. With today's higher operating expenses, an increasing amount of a company's base budget must cover its' Liability Insurance, Workman's Compensation and Disability coverage and one of the few ways this can be controlled, and even reduced, is thru a company's commitment to everyday decisions about improving its Safety!

Our Vac-Master's 4000 Soil-Vac unit can also be your company's advantage over the competition for those clients who demand Zero-Loss Projects from their Contractors. Any task which involves workplace hazards and a potential for environmental or property loss can be made safe through well thought out decisions of due diligence which mitigate these hazards and losses.

Our Soil-Vac Services can be part of your company's economical safety strategy for sensitive subsurface excavations. For example, excavation events in urban areas have always been a particular hazard in regards to the potential for contact of & damage to buried underground utilities. Just as hazardous are densely populated suburban areas and commercial properties which utilize buried underground utilities as a general practice mainly for aesthetic purposes.

As part of your company's excavation plan on any project, a legal step of due diligence prior to putting the first shovel in the ground includes notifying local utilities of your project (via Dig-Safe or NYC One-Call in our regions) in order to establish and identify hazards to be avoided. Together with an on-site locating service's markout, sensitive excavation areas can be cleared without potential of harm to man, machine or property using Soil-Vac Excavation equipment & methods. Rather then time-wasting, back-breaking and laborious hand clearing our Soil-Vac unit can quickly and efficiently exposes the exact location of these buried utilities so as to avoid any & all dangerous contact and damage.

Also known as 'Soft-Dig', a Soil-Vac uses air & vacuum to move dirt and soil; unlike mechanical equipment which uses contact & force. Not only can an electrical line kill or a gas main explode, your valuable time and money can be lost through repair and replacement expenses associated with utility contact and damage. So why take a chance and risk your company profits to human injury, equipment & property damage, lost time, potential litigation and even your reputation. Give our Soil-Vac Excavation Services a chance to predictably control that portion of your excavation plan's safety decisions for reduced insurance premiums and tighter budget management.

Whether you're in charge of your corporation's health & safety or sub-contracting; or whether you own and run your own well drilling, excavation or even a private on-site locating company, let Taconic Environmental Services support you're commitment to safety and quality:

• Soil Drilling for well installations or geotechnical analysis
• Based on known existing subsurface utilities and their assumed general depth below grade, TES can use its Soil-Vac to Pre-Clear the hazardous unknown layer of earth from grade surface to beneath the assumed general depth below grade at the diameter of the boring equipment to be used.
• Results are 0% contact & damage to subsurface utilities dangerously within your drilling area!
  
  
• Investigative Excavations or Test-Pitting
• Similar to soil drilling, TES can pre-clear to eliminate risk of subsurface utility contact & damage when investigating a site's underground environment.
• Yet TES can also uncover entire pipelines and conduit runs, and the Soil-Vac can safely expose sensitive buried structures like UST's and building foundations to name some examples.
• A Soil-Vac can be additionally useful in tight & difficult to access locations like in basements, elevator shafts and alleyways for instance.
  
  
• Property Development and Excavations
• The denser the development and population, the more hazards exist in excavating through pre-existing urbanized, industrial & commercial locations.
• Develop your project's excavation plan to identify sensitive, existing utility areas in the path of your excavation locations and let TES work ahead of your mechanical excavation equipment to pre-clear those sensitive areas to keep the project progressing efficiently with little to no down-time.
• Another real hazard with buried underground utilities is the inability to locate non-metallic and plastic pipe lines or conduit. Tracer wire is not always installed to follow and locate utilities, and although you know its there somewhere underground you don't know exactly where. Also, more often than people realize, as-builts drawings are never finalized or updated upon job completion and are rarely accurate.
• From razing & rebuilding an entire building/property to installing a mere fence post, hazards do exist and if you can't locate, identify and confirm a clear safe excavation then the risk of loss will always exist to potentially harm your business, your employees, your client's property and the environment.