Badger Daylighting Ltd. provides non-destructive excavating and related services in Canada and the United States. Its Badger Hydrovac technology uses a pressurized water stream to liquefy the soil cover, which is then removed with a vacuum system and deposited into a storage tank. The company offers daylighting services for visual confirmation of buried lines, directional drilling test holes, sacrificial anode installation, pipeline and utility crossings, and subsurface utility engineering test holes applications; potholing; and slot trenching services for perimeter slot trenching, exposing existing cables or conduits, cable or conduit and drain tile installation, and line fault repairs. It also provides pole and piling holes services for utility, traffic signal, and transmission pole holes, as well as light standard and sign post holes; pole removals; end-bearing, pilot holes for friction, and spread footing piles; and well monitor installations applications. In addition, the company offers service repair pits for gas service tie-in, electric cable fault repair, water main and service repair, and telecom splice applications; and debris removal and tank cleanouts services, such as frac tank cleanouts, road and box culvert cleanouts, pipe-rammed casing cleanouts, ballast and filter media removal, and inside structures and buildings material removal. Further, it provides anode installation services; emergency response services; and pipeline crossing and tie-in applications, as well as designs, engineers, and supplies excavation shoring systems. The company serves the utility, oil and gas, aggregate, power generation, transportation, industrial, engineering, mining, and construction industries, as well as railway hydrovac services. As of December 31, 2018, it operated a fleet of 1,221 Badger hydrovacs. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.
