Witness Hydro-Excavation in Action

What happens here

A worker, dressed in high-visibility protective gear (a yellow full-body suit and hard hat), is operating the hydro-excavation equipment. He holds a long, wand-like tool connected to the truck's boom, directing a high-pressure stream of water into the ground around what appear to be existing utility boxes and conduits. This process, known as hydro-jetting or hydro-excavation, uses pressurized water to liquefy soil and a powerful vacuum to suction the resulting slurry away, creating a trench or pothole without the risk of damaging buried lines that mechanical digging could pose.

Goal: Observe the non-destructive excavation process.