Environmental & Geotechnical Drilling | Kodiak Drilling of Toronto Ontario Canada

Environmental & Geotechnical Drilling | Kodiak Drilling of Toronto Ontario Canada

Locates Take Too Long !

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Report on 1Call Problems

The time it is taking to get locates through the 1Call system is just way too long.  This problem is not only causing enormous frustration for consultants and drillers in the site investigation sector, but the construction industry too is also facing issues with this problem.  The RCCAO (Residential and Civil Construction Alliance of Ontario has commissioned a report “Improving Ontario’s One Call System: How to achieve more timely utility locates by applying enforcement practices used in other jurisdictions”.  You can look at the report by clicking RCCAO Report.  One of the more interesting quotes from the report is

More than 1,000 complaints have been filed with Ontario One Call since mid-2014 about late or misleading locates, but there have been no convictions or charges against any person for violation of the One Call Act. The enforcement director for Ontario One Call has a long backlog estimated to be several hundred complaints from excavators that have not yet been investigated and the backlog, according to several excavators, continues to grow.

 

Settlement Monitoring

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Tunnelling-Induced Ground Movements

cgs_logoThe Canadian Geotechnical Society (CGS) is hosting a seminar on this topic on April 28.  You can access the information by clicking here.

We recently completed a large project with our MiniProbe machine installing settlement monitoring points, surveying benchmarks and other related infrastructure in connection with a large utility installation project.  The equipment we installed in our boreholes could be used by engineers and surveyors to monitor the potential for ground movements caused by the large tunnelling equipment used for installing the utility line.   The installation of approximately 200 locations required a small drill in order to access very difficult areas and restrict the ground disturbance as much as possible.  Although we did not use the direct push soil sampling feature of this machine, its ability to auger allowed us to install the points at a range of depths.  The very light weight and “tread lightly” features of the machine were a perfect fit for these installations.  We have now done a number of projects involving settlement monitoring with this drill; it’s proving to be a very versatile small drill.IMG-20150507-00046

Blue Jays

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The Bat Flip

For the third year in a row, we had Jays season tickets available for clients this past season.  As an added treat, this year a number of clients got to go to some playoff games !!  We are looking forward to another big year and some more playoffs.  Check the 2016 schedule and give us your preferred dates for a pair of tickets.

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February 2016

New Drill

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Geoprobe 6620

6620dt-epi-service-after-7-We have added another new drill to the fleet of limited access drills.  In keeping with our niche of machines for limited access areas, the Geoprobe 6620 is a great new tool for our drilling tool box.  For those clients who are familiar with our MiniMole, this drill will be suitable for many of the locations where the MiniMole is traditionally used.  Equipped with an automatic 140lb drop hammer, this machine is equally adept at geotechnical drilling as it is using direct push tooling for environmental investigations.  Although the machine is slightly wider than the MiniMole, the increased weight and larger auger motor make it a more powerful alternative for places you can fit the slightly larger footprint of this machine.  This is the largest of our 3 direct push machines, with our MiniProbe being more suitable for tighter spaces and our Geoprobe 420 being very specialized for more access limited areas.

 

February 2016

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