Vacuum Excavation Services and Gross Pollutant Traps for Your Construction and Waste Management Solutions

The method of vacuum excavation ensures that underground utilities at a construction site are not disturbed. This is accomplished through the use of imaging techniques such as Ground Penetration Radar (GPR), which allows field engineers to locate underground utilities. As a result, the construction engineers will be able to dig in such a way that these utilities are not harmed. This way, your business may continue to operate because your utilities will not be disrupted during the non-destructive digging process. Vacuum excavation will help in the continuity of your business in this method.

Vacuum excavation, often known as soft dig, is a non-mechanical and less invasive form of digging. To loosen the dirt, a blast of air or water is directed into the dig site. Aussie Hydro-Vac Services' vacuum excavation ensures that your site is dug in a non-destructive manner. The use of air and water to excavate an area without hurting the environment is known as vacuum excavation. A high-pressure water jet is used to break the ground for this. The jet drills the ground in precise proportions while avoiding injuring buried utilities. A vacuum pump is used to create suction, and a pipe is used to collect the slurry and transfer it away from the location.Aussie Hydro-Vac Services' vacuum excavation trucks are equipped with a compressed air lance, waste storage chamber, and vacuum suction to complete the work precisely and quickly.

How does hydrovac excavation work?

A vacuum excavation unit uses either a positive displacement (PD) blower or fan-powered air to create vacuum. The vacuum excavation unit can achieve higher cubic feet per minute rates with the PD machine than with a vacuum pump. Fan-powered devices move a tremendous quantity of air, and the fans can be connected in series such that one fan supercharges the next, allowing for deeper excavation.

Vacuum excavation provides a clean and efficient method of non-destructive digging in this way. The procedure is carried out with minimal disruption to employees, customers, or those in the immediate vicinity. The vacuum excavation procedure protects employees against trench cave-ins and other hazards while working on an excavation job. When working in frozen ground, vacuum excavation is useful. A hot jet of water is used to break up the snow as it falls to the earth.

Benefits of vacuum excavation

•          It is faster and cost-effective
•          Provide cleaner and safer operations compared to the traditional excavation methods
•          Virtually eliminates the risk of accidentally damaging utilities
•          Greatly reduces the footprint of a jobsite
•          Excavated can be reused for refilling

Vacuum excavation is more advanced, efficient, and cost-effective than the traditional digging methods. The process is also environmentally beneficial because it does not involve the use of any chemicals. The technique can unclog municipal drains, culverts, and other drainage systems. Vacuum excavation is used for excavating around utility lines, pipelines, cables, and rail lines for repair and removal because of its great precision and accuracy.

Hydrovac vacuum excavation is best suited for the below scenarios:

•          Locating and measuring the buried utilities
•          Cleaning valve boxes and catch basins
•          Potholing
•          Precision trench digging
•          Sewer line repairs
•          Surveying
•          Geotechnical drilling

Uses and benefits of gross pollutant traps (GPTs)

Aussie Hydro-Vac Services provides gross pollutant traps to physically process and trap solid waste such as litter and coarse sediments. To remove big, non-biodegradable contaminants, they are frequently utilised as the initial treatment. The goal of these filtration devices is to keep stormwater pollution out of the rivers. The operation of gross pollutant traps is simple; these devices remove particles larger than 5 mm using physical removal techniques such as fast sedimentation and hydrodynamic separation.

Gross pollutant traps are often built underground and have a low environmental impact. Gross pollutant traps are usually used in a treatment train with other stormwater treatment techniques including tertiary treatments or bio-retention systems once the primary treatment is completed. Gross pollutant traps are effective in removing bigger pollutants that could create downstream system obstructions or clogs.

Three commonly used types of gross pollutant traps (GPTs) are:

Direct screening: The device incorporates screens in a variety of orientations to manage the flow. These types of gross pollutant traps are not self-cleaning.

Vertex type gross pollutant trap: The device directs flow to produce vortices but does not have a screen.

Continuous deflective separation GPT: The device combines a vortex separation with a non-blocking screening system. The units are precast in concrete segments, and councils can benefit from their performance and reliability.

Aussie Hydro-Vac Services also offers drain cleaning, vacuum loading, vacuum excavation, liquid & solid waste disposal, emergency spills response, and many more services related to exaction to the industries. Technical services offered by Aussie Hydro-Vac Services include cable & pipe location, subsurface engineering & maintenance, CCTV inspection, surveying services, and more. To complete hydrovac excavation of any scale, the company provides a well-equipped all-terrain medium vacuum excavation unit, a tight access vacuum excavation unit, a semi vacuum tanker, a trailer vacuum excavation unit, and more.The company can be contacted for one-stop solutions related to non-destructive excavation in Queensland, NSW and other parts of Australia.