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