Water & Force-Main Boring in Greater New Orleans
The metro's water systems carry the delta's hardest assignment: mains in ground that settles, a famous renewal backlog being worked at generational scale, and pumped drainage that makes every parish's hydraulics unique. The crossings follow — replacement mains under historic streets, force mains to treatment plants, north-shore expansion on St. Tammany's growth curve. We pull fused HDPE and fusible PVC on profile, fusion certs in the submittal, testing to the owner's standard, with product choices that respect what settlement does to rigid joints — fused pipe earns its keep here.
Vertical discipline is delta-specific: with almost no natural grade south of the lake, force mains live or die on the drilled profile, and rod-by-rod confirmation on grade-critical shots is the proof. Where an alignment's needs exceed what soft ground lets HDD honestly hold, the scope says so before the pipe is bought.
Every pit and every pull runs the wet-ground program — engineered shoring, continuous pumping, ballast on the product — because in this metro the water table isn't a depth, it's a neighbor.