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Hydro Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD)

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Innovation In Water-Based Fluid Disposal

Issue at a Glance

Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) is a construction technique in which a tunnel is drilled under a waterway or other designated area, and a pipeline or other utility is pulled through the drilled underground tunnel. This process generates liquid slurry waste that requires disposal.
Liquid slurry disposal is often costly and environmentally hostile when not managed properly.
Traditional methods are inefficient, slow and expensive.
The process for liquid slurry disposal often looks like this:

  1. Specialized vacuum trucks transport the slurry to a transfer station
  2. Bulking agents such as sawdust are used (usually bulking the slurry up by 50-200%)
  3. Dump trucks transport the increased waste load to a final disposal site
This means more trucks needed, more time wasted and higher disposal costs incurred.

Overview of Extrac Tech's Product

  • Using Extrac Tech's reagent, the hydro excavation material is transformed into a dry, earth-like finish.
  • This solution requires no in-ground sumps, and provides optimal efficiency for expensive hydro excavation trucks and low-cost disposal options for solid material.
  • The 1% dosage required for solidification with MetaFLO’s reagent results in a much smaller quantity than would be produced by sawdust or wood chip bulking methods.
  • This also reduces activities that generate a carbon footprint and mitigates safety and environmental risks associated with shipping large quantities of liquid waste.

The benefits are clear with the Extrac Tech patented process:

  • Cost savings
  • Fewer trucks needed
  • No expensive liquid transport
  • Reduction in GHG emissions
  • Control of waste
  • Compliance for client
  • Soil reused as clean, regenerative fill material
  • Less paperwork involved

  • Extrac Tech Technologies can work with operations personnel to help put together a tailored and effective plan to address the challenges of variable liquid waste streams (such as tunnel spoils, hydro excavation slurry, and wastewater lagoons).
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Extrac Tech Solution

Our non-toxic, inert* solidification reagents convert tunneling and drilling spoils to a manageable solid, on-site, in minutes. The solidified waste can then pass Slump and Paint Filter Tests, and typically requires a dose of less than 1.0% wt/wt.

The solidified slurry is transferred to dump trucks to be transported directly to the final disposal site. It reduces risks, lowers operational costs, and promotes a safer, more sustainable waste management approach in tunneling projects.
*Product classification may differ across jurisdictions in different countries.

MF003

Liquid Waste Streams

MF006

Water Based Semi Solids

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