We run hydro excavation, utility potholing and jetting work throughout Las Cruces and Doña Ana County. Our yard is in El Paso, about an hour down I-10, which means Las Cruces is a routine day's work for us rather than a special trip.
Most of what we get called for in Las Cruces falls into three buckets: exposing a utility that nobody wants to hit with a backhoe, clearing a line that has stopped flowing, and pulling water and mud out of somewhere it should not be.
Field video from a Las Cruces jobsite. Contact us to discuss vacuum truck services for your commercial, utility, or construction project.
Hydro excavation and utility potholing. Pressurized water cuts the soil, a vacuum removes it, and the utility comes out of the ground undamaged. This is how you verify the depth and position of a gas line, water main, fiber run or duct bank before design or before a crew digs.
Daylighting for design and as-builts. Engineering firms use us to open a hole, confirm what is actually down there, and backfill it the same day.
Jetting and pipe cleaning. Culverts, storm drains, conduit and duct banks. We handle pipe up to 36 inches in diameter and can run up to 500 feet.
Water, mud and slurry removal. Flooded vaults, water-filled excavations, slurry left behind by a boring crew.
Trenching and hole excavation. Including pole holes and foundation holes where a machine cannot work safely.
We have eight large vacuum trucks and we answer the phone 24 hours a day. Crews hold OSHA 10 and OSHA 30 cards.
Caliche. Anyone who has put a shovel in the ground in the Mesilla Valley knows the problem. Caliche is a soil layer cemented hard by calcium and magnesium carbonates, and it ranges from a soft thin horizon to a bed you cannot break with hand tools. Mechanical digging near a live utility in caliche is where damage happens, because the operator has to lean on the machine to get through the hard layer and then has no feel for what is behind it. Pressurized water cuts caliche without that risk.
Monsoon season. New Mexico's monsoon runs June 15 through September 30, and a single afternoon storm can pack a culvert or a storm drain solid, or fill an open excavation with water and silt overnight. Half our summer callouts in the area are cleanup after a storm rather than planned work.
Old and undocumented utilities. Between the older parts of the city, the NMSU area and decades of piecemeal development, what is on the plan and what is in the ground are not always the same thing. Potholing is cheaper than finding out the hard way.
A clogged electrical conduit under a concrete driveway. A commercial property had a break in a buried electrical conduit and the line was clogged. We saw-cut the driveway, potholed down with hydro excavation to expose the conduit, then ran a jetter hose through the line to clear it. One day on site. The conduit came out of the ground intact — no cutting, no crushing, no shovel work against a live line.
An electric utility manhole full of water and debris. Vacuum hose down into the vault to pull the water, mud and debris out while the jetter cleared the duct. No digging, nothing done to the cables.
Both of these are the same underlying job: get to the problem without breaking what is around it.
New Mexico law requires an 811 locate at least two working days before excavation, and the excavator has to wait for positive response from every facility owner before breaking ground. We work inside that process, not around it. If a locate has not been called yet, tell us when you call and we will schedule around the waiting period.
If the work sits in city right-of-way, Las Cruces handles right-of-way and commercial development permits through Public Works Construction Management. Traffic control is subcontracted when a job needs it.
General contractors, utility and electrical contractors, plumbing contractors, municipalities, industrial facilities, engineering firms, commercial property managers, and telecom and infrastructure contractors. We hold recurring maintenance work, including for a regional electric utility.
We are a New Mexico licensed contractor and have been in business since 1979.
We also handle clearing conduit and duct banks and culvert and storm drain cleaning across southern New Mexico.
Where the job is — address, cross streets, or a pin.
What you need exposed or cleared, and how deep or how far, if you know.
The surface: dirt, asphalt, concrete, or landscaping.
Whether an 811 locate has been called.
Site access and whether a truck can get within hose reach.
Plans or photos if you have them.
You do not need all of it to call. Location and a description of the problem is enough to get a real answer on scheduling.
Las Cruces, Mesilla, Doña Ana, Anthony, Chaparral, Sunland Park, Santa Teresa, Hatch, Deming, and out to Silver City, Alamogordo and Truth or Consequences. We also cover Carlsbad, Artesia, Hobbs and Roswell.
Call 915-479-7060 to check scheduling for your location.
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