Drilling
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Our Capabilities
We provide a wide array of in-house drilling applications, which means we don’t need to rely on subcontractors’ availability, schedule, or pricing to provide full services to our clients.
At the onset of any project, our drilling staff works directly with our team of engineers, geologists, and scientists to develop a cost-effective investigation program in concert with a realistic schedule based on direct field experience.
Our team can meet any environmental or geotechnical drilling need. We can execute projects from start up to clean up. All drilling and soil probing is performed in accordance with state environmental and ASTM standards. LaBella provides drilling services in the Eastern US, from Ohio to Maine to Alabama.
Our drilling services include:
- Direct push, hollow stem auger, and sonic drilling of unconsolidated materials
- Wash rotary, air hammer, and coring methods for bedrock
- Depth discrete soil and groundwater sampling via direct push
- Monitoring well installation and development
- Recovery and injection well installation
- Overwater barge drilling and sampling
- Geotechnical (standard split spoon and Shelby tube sampling)
- Well decommissioning
Sonic Drilling
LaBella’s sonic drill operates three times faster and generates 33% less waste, which translates into lower project costs for you and your clients.
Additional advantages of sonic drilling include the following:
- Excels in difficult formations
- Reduction of on-site labor
- 600-foot drilling capability
- Highly representative discrete core samples
- Ability to continuously extract core samples
- Minimal amount of disturbance or compaction
LaBella utilizes sonic technology on projects such as in-situ chemical injection applications, monitoring well installations, geologic assessments, geotechnical surveys, and water supply investigation.
Drills We Own/Operate
Sonic Drill SDC 390-14
- Rubber tracks
- Casing diameters: 4-inch, 6-inch, and 8-inch sonic tooling
- Maximum depth: 600 feet, currently tooled to 300 feet
CME-55 LC
- Rubber tracks
- Low clearance model
- 2.25-inch to 8.25-inch hollow stem augers
- NX and HQ coring
- Air rotary and hammer – 2-inch, 4-inch, and 6-inch
Dietrich D-50
- Rubber tracks
- 2.25 to 8.25-inch hollow stem augers
- NX and HQ coring
- Air rotary and hammer – 2-inch, 4-inch, and 6-inch
Geoprobe 3200
- Truck-mounted
- 2.25-inch to 8.25-inch hollow stem augers
- NX and HQ coring
- Air rotary and hammer – 2-inch, 4-inch, and 6-inch
- Direct push
Geoprobe 3230DT
- Rubber tracks
- 2.25-inch to 8.25-inch hollow stem augers
- NX and HQ coring
- Air rotary and hammer – 2-inch, 4-inch, and 6-inch
- Direct push
Geoprobe 7822DT (2 Units)
- Rubber tracks
- 2.25-inch to 8.25-inch hollow stem augers
- NX and HQ coring
- Air rotary and hammer– 2-inch, 4-inch, and 6-inch
- Direct push
Geoprobe 6620DT
- Rubber tracks
- 2.25-inch to 4.25-inch hollow stem augers
- Automatic drop hammer
- Direct push
Geoprobe 6610DT (2 Units)
- Rubber tracks
- 2.25-inch to 4.25-inch hollow stem augers
- Direct push
Geoprobe 420M
- Limited access machine (23 inches wide by 62 inches tall)
- Direct push
