Where a route crosses soft ground, it is often the case that the application of a stone topping would be in vain as it would quickly sink without trace. The use of subsoil tracking has been the traditional solution to this problem for centuries. By excavating the route and a drainage ditch to the side, such that the ditch spoil is used to elevate the track surface, ensures that the track base can drain and harden enough to take light traffic or a stone surface for heavier traffic.
Specialist excavator techniques and the use of various binding materials ensure that DMS can construct or refurbish subsoil tracks across very difficult ground that most contractors would judge impossible. By careful reuse of the removed turf, DMS ensure that the finished track will very quickly blend and heal any evidence of excavator work.
Subsoil Bridges
DMS are also skilled in designing and building subsoil bridges. Where a water course develops into a wide area of soft ground that crosses a track, the result will typically be very deep ruts and surface erosion, making track use almost impossible except by foot. Often the span is too wide and the ground too soft to allow a conventional bridge. DMS can build a subsoil bridge, providing an economical way of raising the track level and allowing the watercourse to pass unhindered under the track
