Who we work for
Municipal directional drilling in Fulton County
For public works departments, utilities and the engineers who design for them: crossings and mains installed without closing the street.
Public utilities under live streets
The City of Atlanta, Fulton County and the fourteen other cities in the county add and replace water, sewer and drainage lines under streets that cannot close, and run fiber and signal conduit along corridors that are already full. Directional drilling does that from small pits in the right-of-way with traffic maintained, the bore tracked to the plan and an as-built delivered. Where a crossing must be straight and cased, under a state route, a railroad, MARTA or for a gravity line, auger boring installs the casing on grade.
Agencies and owners
Rights-of-way are permitted by the City of Atlanta Department of Transportation inside the city, Fulton County Public Works in the unincorporated county, each of the North and South Fulton cities on their own streets, GDOT District 7 on state routes and the interstates, MARTA along its corridors and the railroads (Norfolk Southern, CSX) on theirs. The ground under an Atlanta street is as crowded as the street itself: water and sewer from the City of Atlanta Department of Watershed Management, Georgia Power duct banks, Atlanta Gas Light mains, MARTA conduit, traffic signal interconnect, and generations of telecom. A bore here is planned around the Georgia 811 marks and potholed where the locate is not enough.
Municipal work
- Water main crossings and extensions.
- Sewer force mains and cased gravity crossings.
- Traffic signal, ITS and municipal fiber conduit.
- Creek and culvert crossings to the city's or the county's standard.
- Services and relocations on resurfacing and streetscape projects.
Ground
Fulton County is Piedmont: a few feet of red clay over saprolite, and under that the granite and gneiss that show at the surface as outcrops in the parks and the road cuts. North of the city the rock can be within reach of a shallow bore; along the Chattahoochee and the creeks it is deeper under alluvium. A crew that drills Atlanta every week carries the bit, the mud motor and the patience for it.
Working with the city
The crew prepares the bore plan and profile for the permit, meets the owner's product and testing specifications, maintains traffic to the approved plan and documents the installation. Davis Underground Solutions, Inc. is headquartered in Powder Springs, a short drive west of the Perimeter, so Fulton County is home territory: no mobilization fee, a site walk within days, and a crew that has already drilled the rock under Buckhead, the clay in Alpharetta and the fill around the airport. Estimates are free. Call now: (678) 264-3333.
There is more about directional drilling in Atlanta, including photos from recent Georgia work, on the company site.
Estimates are free. Call now: (678) 264-3333.
Services for municipal work in Fulton County
Directional Drilling
Horizontal directional drilling (HDD): a steered bore between two small pits that puts conduit, pipe and cable under roads, driveways, parking lots and landscaping with no open trench.
Horizontal Drilling
Horizontal drilling for any line that has to cross something it cannot cut through: a street, a slab, a canal, a stand of trees. Entry pit, exit pit, nothing opened in between.
Directional Boring
Directional boring is the small-rig end of HDD: short, shallow bores for service lines, sleeves and conduit on residential and light-commercial lots.
Underground Drilling
Underground drilling for new utilities where the surface is spoken for: tracked, steered bores placed under whatever is already built on top.
Fiber Optic Cable Drilling
Fiber duct and drop conduit installed by directional drill for carriers, co-ops, campuses and developments: long shots along the right-of-way, short shots to the building.
Electrical Conduit Drilling
PVC and HDPE electrical conduit bored under pavement for primary feeds, secondary services, site lighting and EV charging circuits.
Underground Conduit Drilling
Single ducts and multi-duct bundles pulled through one reamed bore: communications, power, controls and spares placed together under the obstacle.
Structured Cable Drilling
Conduit between buildings for structured cabling, campus networks, security and controls, bored under courtyards, drives and parking rather than cut across them.
Utility Drilling
Utility drilling for water, sewer, gas, power and telecom owners: permitted road crossings, mains under live streets, services to the meter.
Communications Drilling
Communications conduit and cable placed by directional drill: telecom, cable TV, cell-site backhaul and private networks, under roads and lots.
Missile Boring
Missile boring (pneumatic piercing) drives a steel mole through the soil for short, straight, shallow runs under a driveway or sidewalk: the quickest way to sleeve a lawn or a walk.
Auger Boring and Drilling
Cased auger bores for road, highway and railroad crossings and for gravity sewer that has to hold an exact grade: a straight steel casing jacked from a pit.
Sewer, Water and Drain Lines
New water services and mains, sewer force mains and laterals, and storm drains installed under roads, driveways and yards without trenching them open.
Other customers
- Residential directional drilling in Atlanta — Homes, driveways and yards: service lines and sleeves without tearing up the property.
- Commercial directional drilling in Atlanta — Site utilities, parking-lot crossings and duct banks for shopping centers, offices and restaurants.
- Industrial directional drilling in Atlanta — Plants, distribution centers and industrial parks: large-diameter crossings and process utilities.
Questions from municipal customers
Plan and profile for the permit?+
Yes, for ATLDOT, Fulton County, the cities, GDOT, MARTA and the railroads.
Traffic?+
Maintained to the agency's approved plan; pits are placed to keep lanes open wherever the right-of-way allows.
Public bids?+
Yes; the company carries the insurance and documentation public owners require and provides references on request.