July 23, 2001

A husband and wife team have created a market niche with their new environmental drilling company based in Wareham, Mass., at the gateway to Cape Cod.

Carrie Collins, a 1991 graduate of University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a native of South Hadley, Mass., and her husband, Turner's Falls, Mass., native, David (D.J.) Quagliaroli, are the two key operators of a four-year-old environmental drilling firm called DRAGIN Drilling Inc.

The 13 staff of the firm includes Carrie's parents, Dianne and Doug, and brother, Todd,
and D.J.'s son Robert. Carrie and D.J. met eight years ago on a job site at the Mass. Military
Reservation on Cape Cod. Carrie, at the time, was working as an engineer for the Boston-
based CDM Federal Programs Corporation, and David as operations manager of the
Connecticut-based East Coast Drilling and Boring. Their working relationship continued at
the base for four years, at which time, they began tossing around the idea of forming
their own environmental drilling company.

The idea intrigued them enough to move forward and form a
company that would soon fill a market niche. The two
complemented each other so well, two years ago, they married.

Carrie serves as president and chief executive officer, and D.J. as vice president of the firm that has
performed work for the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, the Massachusetts Highway Department,
the City of Boston's Central Artery, the Massachusetts Military Reservation, the Boston Redevelopment
Authority, and many engineering firms. Soon, after its inception, DRAGIN Drilling was certified as SOMWBA
Woman-Owned Business Enterprise (WBE) and Disadvantage Business Enterprise (DBE).

Prior to founding DRAGIN Drilling, Carrie had been a project engineer for Stone & Webster Engineering in
Boston, where she did everything from budgeting and scheduling to overseeing hazardous waste
investigation and remediation projects. She is 40-hour OSHA certified and a licensed hazardous waste site
supervisor. Carrie oversees DRAGIN Drilling's management, finances, and business development.

D.J. had been vice president of East Coast Thomas Environmental, the New Hampshire-based company
which purchased East Coast Drilling and Boring. He is a national- and Massachusetts-certified well driller
and 40-hour OSHA certified. D.J. manages and oversees DRAGIN Drilling's project performance, prepares
project schedules and staffing, prepares proposals, and heads the design team.

DRAGIN is an acronym for "Deep Remedial And Groundwater Investigation Needs" derived by Carrie. One of the company's drill rigs is said to be the most powerful auger rig in the United States and the "only one of its kind." Another is claimed to be the only high-torque all-terrain drill rig in the northeast. The company has also custom-designed several drilling and sampling systems, one of which is to be patent pending. Specialty services range from deep (depths in excess of 350 feet) environmental sampling and monitoring well installations, to remote access construction dewatering well installations.

Not only has the firm landed work on the "Big Dig" project in Boston and the Metro West
Tunnel Project in Framingham, but their services have reportedly been sole-source
contracted on several locations.