Apparently Company C, operating in the Bakken, sent a team down to help clean up South Carolina after major flooding. From the story:
Flood waters had completely engulfed the church from rooftop to floor.
As these waters receded, they left behind the typical slime and muck, scattered with random debris, that might have taken weeks to clean by conventional methods.
But sometimes there isn’t weeks to save a building. As seen during Hurricane Katrina, it doesn’t take long for the cruddy material to plant molds in a building that make it forevermore uninhabitable.
With a hydrovac, however, a project that might have taken weeks and weeks with the hands of many volunteers was accomplished in a couple hours with a team of just four.
Some background:Church said a few C Company employees are from the South Carolina area. With oil prices being down, they knew the company could spare a truck. The technology is ideal for helping in the cleanup, so they asked to take some equipment down to help out, and the company gave its blessing.
A team of hydroexcavators from C Company in Williston are among hundreds of volunteers who have poured into South Carolina to help with cleanup as flood waters recede by using the hydrovacs that use a combination of water jets followed by high-power vacuum to pull material up or away quickly and efficiently. It can even be used underground without harming anything buried.
The technology is often used in the Oil Patch of North Dakota for cleaning up oil spills, pipeline inspections, slot trenching, frozen ground excavation, telephone line repair and pit cleaning. With this equipment, the crews have turned many cleanup jobs that might have taken weeks into just hours.
Very, very impressive. Much, much more at the link. A great story to read.The Williston company’s highly specialized equipment is uncommon in the South, and really anywhere outside of oil patches.
I think I have a story for my granddaughter for "Global Problem Solving." Jeb Bush should visit South Carolina and help out. Isn't South Carolina one of the early primary states?
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