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Delivering Water and Sewer Services to Savannah's Manufacturing Center
much time to think about finding a larger
1,100-foot (335.3-meter) bores for 30-inch
recycling system. I talked with Ken Coffield
water and 30-inch sewer mains. The crew
at Vermeer Southeast about how he thought also did four 800-foot (243.8-meter) long
the R250C would keep up with D330x500,
connection bores for 24-inch forced-sewer
and he said it could probably handle it in
lines. Everything went according to plan
the ground conditions we were working.
for the D&C HDD professionals.
Everything went great. So, when we got our
" Our team did an excellent job on this
D220x300, we knew it would be able to keep project. Most of our people have been with
up in similar conditions, and it has. "
Carla and me since almost the beginning.
While the reclaimer is a 250-galThey show up ready to work every day, and
lon-per-minute (946.4-liter-per-minute)
when it's time to go home and relax, we
recycling unit, it may be possible to pair it
all seem to hang out with each other then,
with a larger HDD unit in certain environtoo. We're all pretty close, " said Williams.
ments. However, the drill operator needs
Looking back
to be very disciplined with monitoring
According to Carla, her husband Dennis
pullback speeds to keep solids loading
as always been one of the best contractors
under control in the return fluids.
D&C crews worked in similar ground con- in the business, but it wasn't until they
made the shift from small-diameter utility
ditions for the offsite SEDA work, so they
installs to large-diameter water and sewer
stuck with the same drilling fluid mixture
that worked onsite. " The bores were shorter, work that he found his true calling.
" He was asked to bid on a water and
but there were more of them to do, and we
sewer project around 10 years ago and got
weren't just crossing under wetlands -
it, " said Carla. " Soon after, we put every
there were highways, too, " said Williams.
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The offsite
SEDA bores included a pair of penny of our savings into the business, so

they would have what they needed to get
the job done.
" Those were scary days, but it's all been
worth it. We've been able to spend our
time with great people doing what we love.
Dennis handles the bidding and managing
the crews, and I help out with the books
and wherever else I'm needed, " she said.
Williams added that they have built a
great business as a family. " It's been a huge
blessing to have our kids and grandchildren
as part of the business, as well as my very
supportive wife, " he explained.
" Carla works full time running a convenience store and makes sure all our business
paperwork is getting done. She's always been
supportive of what I want to do and understands when we need to add new equipment
to make that next step as a company. I don't
think we'll ever grow too much beyond the
kind of work we do now, but whatever we
do, I know we'll do it as a family. " *
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
D&C Directional Boring, (912) 858-3678
Vermeer Corp., (888) 837-6337, vermeer.com

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