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CT Horizontal & Vac: The Work Under Your Feet That You'll Never See
Melancthon · Underground Infrastructure & Excavation · July 28, 2026
Corey Allen drills the services that keep Dufferin connected — horizontal directional drilling and hydrovac excavation — then goes and runs a hockey bench.
Almost nobody notices this work, which is exactly the point.
Corey Allen’s CT Horizontal & Vac does horizontal directional drilling and hydrovac excavation — the underground utility work that lets services get installed without tearing up half a road to do it. When it’s done well you never think about it again. When it’s done badly, everybody on the street knows.
Municipal clients and industry partners describe the outfit the same way: dependable, on time, easy to deal with. In construction, that trio is rarer than it should be.
Corey is a Dundalk hockey player by background, has held leadership roles with the Shelburne Muskies, and coaches girls hockey in Orangeville. It’s a fair bet that if you’ve spent a winter in a Dufferin arena, you’ve been in a building with him.