About the Process:

Freedom Utility Placement offers installation of utility lines using the "trenchless" method of horizontal directional drilling, commonly referred to as "HDD" or "directional boring". HDD is a method of underground line placement by which there is no excavation or open trench. HDD offers the following benefits:

• Minimal equipment presence and overall disruption on the jobsite during construction

• Clean and seamless installation

• No disturbance of ground--no digging, trench settling or erosion

• No impact on vegetation, landscaping or wildlife

• Ability to access almost any location

• Capacity to cross under extreme changes in terrain and grade

• Very small entry and exit points

• Eliminates costly excavation, dewatering and trench shoring

• Safer than open trenching--no personnel have to work in hazardous conditions

• Much faster than conventional digging or trenching methods

• Simplifies or eliminates permitting process with state and local governments

• Often LESS expensive than conventional methods

• Eliminates removal and subsequent patching of concrete, asphalt, brick or any other surface

• Eliminates the need to cut or dig under existing lines to go underneath them