Like so many inventions, the Soil Surgeon was created out of the need to do a job more efficiently. In this case, the job was locating and exposing pipelines — but Belinda Bain wanted to do it more easily, quickly and safely.
Bain started her first company, California Hazardous Services, out of her garage when she was 23. Nicknamed CalHaz, the company started out cleaning fuel tanks. It grew into testing, repairing and cleaning all parts of fuel tanks and their systems, and further evolved into other work, like cleaning storm drains. Taking on more municipal cleaning and hydroexcavation work gave Bain the
