Have you driven down Wade Avenue this week? If so, you’ve probably seen our crew out there hard at work.

We’re wrapping up a big one for Raleigh Water—officially called the Atkins and Canterbury Water Line Replacement. It’s a full water and sewer upgrade running down Canterbury Road, starting all the way from Eton.

The final tie-in? That’s where things got tricky. The plans called for us to dig up the intersection at Wade and Canterbury—17 feet deep, right in the middle of a busy road. DOT understandably wasn’t thrilled about shutting down three lanes of Wade Ave.

So, we pivoted.

Instead of open cutting, we went trenchless. We’re using pipe bursting to replace the old 6-inch clay line with 8-inch HDPE—about 175 feet of it. That’s all happening underground, pulled by a winch from a tail pit back to the manhole. No disruption at the surface, no mess in the intersection.

Smart solutions to tough site conditions—that’s our wheelhouse.