Environmental & Geotechnical Drilling | Kodiak Drilling of Toronto Ontario Canada

Environmental & Geotechnical Drilling | Kodiak Drilling of Toronto Ontario Canada

  • Home
  • About Us
  • Our Drills
    • GeoProbe
    • MiniMole
    • MiniProbe
    • Big Beaver
    • 420
    • Pionjar
    • Concrete Coring
  • Pricing
    • Cost Estimator
    • Supplies Calculator
  • Locates
    • Locate Policies
    • Locate Contacts
    • Locate FAQ
    • Locate Resources
    • Utility Locates
  • FAQs
    • Drilling
    • Locate FAQ
    • Well Regulation 903
  • Resources
    • Environmental
    • Geotechnical
    • Locate Resources
    • Health & Safety
  • Health & Safety
    • Insurance & Safety
    • Health and Safety Links
  • Articles
    • Utility Locates
    • Environmental
    • Geotechnical
    • General Interest
    • Health & Safety
    • Wells & Well Records
  • Contact
    • Map & Directions
    • Project Feedback

Settlement Monitoring

April 12, 2016 by Kodiak Drilling

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

Filed Under: Geotechnical Tagged With: Canadian Geotechnical Society, CGS, Geotechnical

Niagara Tunnel

March 4, 2016 by Kodiak Drilling

Canadian Geotechnical Society

Another dinner lecture coming up on March 24, 2016.  Join your fellow geotechnical engineers for a night of dinner, drinks, and a talk about the construction of an incredible tunnel.  For details click here.

cgs_logo

Filed Under: Geotechnical Tagged With: Canadian Geotechnical Society, CGS, Geotechnical

Blue Jays

February 26, 2016 by Kodiak Drilling

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.

BatFlip_AP_322240293770_mumi2xhy_mm09o0a2

 

February 2016

Filed Under: General Interest

New Drill

February 26, 2016 by Kodiak Drilling

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

Filed Under: General Interest Tagged With: 6620, Environmental Site Assessment, geoprobe, Geoprobe 6620, limited access drill, Phase 2

Save Money on Well Records

February 26, 2016 by Kodiak Drilling

Efficiency in Well Records

saveMoneyOne of the advantages of working with Kodiak drill crews is that we try to minimize the time spent on the job site, filling out the Provincial record that is required when groundwater monitoring wells are installed. That time savings reduces your drilling costs. Since drill crews – from any company – charge out at a substantial hourly rate, the savings can be appreciable.

But to give you that savings, we need your help. We’ll ask you for a scaled map of your drill site and the drill locations. We’ll ask you for contact details for the land owner, since that information must be entered on the well record. If we’ve drilled multiple wells, we can save you a lot of costs by recording them as a single cluster – but we need you to ask the property owner to provided a signed permission form. The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change – and Provincial law – requires that well records be filed, and we do our best to keep that cost to a minimum. When our office calls, asking whether you’ve filled out our drilling information package, we need your help. It’s because we’re trying to help you. For you, or your client, the help you give us is in filing the well record is like putting money in your pocket.

 

February 2016

Filed Under: Wells & Well Records Tagged With: reg 903, wells

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • …
  • 21
  • Next Page »

Our Drills

mini-mole-bl

Locate Information

utilitylocate-bl

Articles

Rates

calculate_button_drilling
calculate_button_supply

New & Articles

  • Settlement Monitoring
  • Niagara Tunnel
  • Blue Jays
  • New Drill
  • Save Money on Well Records

Article Categories

  • Environmental (29)
  • General Interest (12)
  • Geotechnical (13)
  • Health & Safety (8)
  • Utility Locates Articles (39)
  • Wells & Well Records (6)

Article Archives

Copyright © 2017 • Environmental & Geotechnical Drilling | Kodiak Drilling of Toronto Ontario Canada • [Best Website Service]