San Juan Lateral Project

Horizontal Directional Drilling

San Juan Lateral Project

Location: Newcomb, New Mexico
Status: Completed 2022
Method: HDD
Installations: Three
Pipe Sizes: 42" & 48"
Total Length: 5,396 LF
Formation: Mixed Soil & Rock
Owner: Bureau of Reclamation
6th Ave & Kipling St
Denver, CO 80225
Engineer: Bureau of Reclamation
6th Ave & Kipling St
Denver, CO 80225
General Contractor: Oscar Renda
608 Henrietta Creek Road
Roanoke, TX 76262
Key Personnel: John Langford, Operations Manager/Project Manager
Oscar Myers, General Superintendent
Benny Burton, Superintendent
Tyler Blake, Driller

Huxted Trenchless completed three separate HDD installations on the San Juan Lateral for the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project in San Juan County, New Mexico.

The work consisted of two 42-inch steel water supply lines (1,828 LF and 1,606 LF) and one 48-inch steel water supply line (1,962 LF), drilled through a mixed formation of silty sands, clay, sandstone, siltstone, mudstone and shale.