Hydro excavation trades a strike risk for a material question. The water and soil we vacuum off your site becomes slurry, and that slurry has to go somewhere permitted. For a lot of contractors, that is the part of the job nobody wants to own.
The usual problem
Most hydrovac outfits dig the hole and then figure out disposal separately, often through a third party. That adds a handoff, a cost you cannot always predict, and a chain-of-custody question that lands back on you if anyone asks where the material ended up.
How we handle it
United Hydrovac works in partnership with United Environmental Corp, a slurry separation and recycling facility. The material our trucks pull off your site goes straight to their permitted facility, gets separated, and gets recycled rather than sent to a landfill cell.
- Excavate: our trucks dig non-destructively on your site.
- Separate: the slurry goes to the United Environmental facility.
- Recycle: solids and water are processed for reuse, not landfilled.
One call covers dig through disposal, with no third-party chain to manage.
For municipal and utility work especially, that closed loop is one less variable in the file. The debris tank leaves your site with everything we pulled, and the disposal side is already handled. Slurry and disposal questions go to Kimberly Douglas at United Environmental Corp.