Great Ontario Hydrovac • Expose, Reveal & Locate with Hydro-Excavation • Barrie, Ontario

Simply put our goal is to be the most reliable, honest, hardworking and dependable hydro-excavation company serving Barrie, Simcoe, Bradford, York Region, The Greater Toronto Area, west to The Georgian Triangle and north to Cottage Country.  We deploy the most modern equipment in the business and provide no dig solutions to contractors, utilities and municipalities on a cost competitive basis.  

We operate on trust and reputation, the same business practices we've honed for years with our Septic Pumping Business, Pump My Tank serving Barrie, Bradford, Newmarket, Orillia, from Innisfil.

What is Hydro Excavating and how does it work?

Hydro-Excavation is a process high pressure water is used to loosen soil, rocks, clay, gravel and other earth material while it is continually "sucked up" into a debris tank for later disposal. Read here about how hydro-excavating can work for you.

Professional Hydro Excavation Service for Municipal, Commercial and Construction Sector

Conventional excavation by backhoe, loader, shovel and bucket can lead to costly utility strikes that can be catastrophic and affect thousands of people.  The economic costs to such damage to fibre lines, electrical telecommunications or plumbing infrastructure can easily run into hundreds of thousands of dollars in a single incident, every year millions of dollars of damage is done.

The biggest reason municipal governments and utility contractor have turned to hydro excavators is the indisputably improved record with respect to safety and damage prevention.  Using conventional digging methods a  single incident can cause major losses such as personal injury or death, property damage, disruption to the general public or environmental damage all of which can lead to serious liability issues at all levels.  

Hydro Excavation Applications

  • Frozen Ground Excavation
  • Slot Trenching
  • Long Distance Application
  • Limited Access Areas
  • Live Gas Lines Exposed
  • Utility Construction
  • Low Water Usage
  • Water Shutoff Repair 
  • Multiple Utility Line Exposure
  • Day Lighting Buried Utilities
  • Minimal Disruption to Landscape
  • Heavy Clay and Rock Excavation
Photos © Vactor Manufacturing show HHX truck in action.

Our Hydro Excavation Operators are Trained with the Following Safety Procedures:

  • Hydrovac Equipment Training
  • Traffic and Vehicle Safety
  • Inspection Methods
  • Maintenance Routines
  • Occupational Health and Safety Act 
  • First Aid / CPR
  • Confined Space Entry
  • Electrical Utility Safety
  • Equipotential Bonding
  • Trench Safety
  • WHMIS
  • Fall Protection