Drilling and Water Services in Charlotte

Since 1938, McCall Brothers Inc. (and its predecessor business), has been involved with groundwater development. The company builds water treatment and waste treatment facilities, drills all types of wells and installs pumps and controls for water production.

As a general contractor, the company constructs water distribution systems, water treatment plants, and domestic waste treatment facilities including waste collection and pumping systems for municipal, commercial and industrial customers in the states of North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. The construction division is also heavily involved in the installation of contaminated groundwater treatment systems for environmental cleanups and dewatering systems for construction excavations.

The company maintains an inventory of approximately $500,000 consisting of parts, components, filters and chemicals to provide for the needs of its customers. McCall Brothers, Inc. is the leading distributor of Sanuril tablet type chlorination and D-chlor tablet type dechlorination tablet feeders for use in waste water treatment (commercial, industrial and residential) systems.

McCall Brothers Inc. has been involved in environmental well drilling, construction and monitoring work for many years. The company has the professional staff and equipment to adapt to almost any type of monitoring well construction and development as well as various sampling techniques. This combination of equipment and personnel has enabled us to perform work of varied scope on CERCLA (Superfund) sites, Marine Corps, Air Force and naval bases as well as other government and private, hazardous waste sites. Approximately 1/3 of the company's total drilling revenue comes from environmental drilling and other activities at environmental sites.

McCall Brothers, Inc. owns and operates a Ditch Witch JT1220 horizontal directional drilling rig with the capability of installing up to 8 inch product and bores up to 500 feet long. The use of these horizontal drilling techniques allows for the upgrade or installation of new utilities without disruption to the public and with minimal surface disturbance. The use of horizontal drilling is popular with property owners for the installation of phone, gas, power, water and sewer lines under streets, railroads, parking lots, streams and wetlands. This technology is becoming popular for environmental services in conducting groundwater and soil remediation. These environmental applications include groundwater extraction, soil vapor extraction, air sparging, free product recovery, bioremediation and soil characterization.