Drilling & boring
Underground drilling in Fulton County
When the street was just resurfaced, the lot is built out and the right-of-way is full, the line goes underneath. Here is how a bore is planned through all of that.
Serving Atlanta · Fulton County
Davis Underground Solutions, Inc.
Directional drilling and boring across Georgia; locates, bore plan and utility coordination handled. More about Davis Underground Solutions →
Three-dimensional planning
An underground bore in Atlanta is designed in plan and profile before the rig arrives: deep enough to clear every line the Georgia 811 marks and the potholes revealed, shallow enough to surface where the pipe needs to, curved to stay inside the easement, and at the cover the permit demands under the street or the creek. Then the crew drills it to that drawing, tracking the head every rod, and hands the owner an as-built when the pipe is in.
What is down there
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.
Rock and water
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. Water is rarely the problem it is on the coast; the creeks and the Chattahoochee bottoms are the exception, and there the fluid-supported bore is the answer.
Crossings and permits
Typical crossings are the Downtown Connector, I-285, GA 400 and I-20, Peachtree Road and Roswell Road, the MARTA lines, the Norfolk Southern and CSX corridors through Inman and Tilford yards, the Beltline, Peachtree Creek, Nancy Creek and the Chattahoochee, and the airport approach roads around Hartsfield-Jackson. 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 contractor
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. Davis Underground Solutions has the equipment and recent crossings. Estimates are free. Call now: (678) 264-3333.
Estimates are free. Call now: (678) 264-3333.
Other drilling and boring services in Fulton County
Directional Drilling Fulton County
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 Fulton County
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 Fulton County
Directional boring is the small-rig end of HDD: short, shallow bores for service lines, sleeves and conduit on residential and light-commercial lots.
Fiber Optic Cable Drilling Fulton County
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 Fulton County
PVC and HDPE electrical conduit bored under pavement for primary feeds, secondary services, site lighting and EV charging circuits.
Underground Conduit Drilling Fulton County
Single ducts and multi-duct bundles pulled through one reamed bore: communications, power, controls and spares placed together under the obstacle.
Structured Cable Drilling Fulton County
Conduit between buildings for structured cabling, campus networks, security and controls, bored under courtyards, drives and parking rather than cut across them.
Utility Drilling Fulton County
Utility drilling for water, sewer, gas, power and telecom owners: permitted road crossings, mains under live streets, services to the meter.
Communications Drilling Fulton County
Communications conduit and cable placed by directional drill: telecom, cable TV, cell-site backhaul and private networks, under roads and lots.
Missile Boring Fulton County
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 Fulton County
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 Fulton County
New water services and mains, sewer force mains and laterals, and storm drains installed under roads, driveways and yards without trenching them open.
Questions about underground drilling in Fulton County
How deep can a bore go in Atlanta?+
Deep enough to clear existing utilities and meet the permit; 4 to 15 feet on utility work, deeper for interstate, rail and MARTA crossings.
Unknown lines in the path?+
811 covers the public utilities; the crew potholes crossings and walks the site for private lines. Anything found changes the plan before the bore.
Under a building?+
When the engineer allows it and there is room to enter and exit, yes.
Do I get an as-built?+
Yes; depth and alignment are recorded rod by rod and provided on request.
Free estimate?+
Yes. Call (678) 264-3333 now or send the project through the form; a reply comes within 24 hours.
Underground Drilling by city in Fulton County
Each community has its own page for this service. The crew, the method and the price are the same across the county; the page covers what is different about the ground and the permits there.
- Underground Drilling Atlanta
- Underground Drilling Alpharetta
- Underground Drilling Chattahoochee Hills
- Underground Drilling College Park
- Underground Drilling East Point
- Underground Drilling Fairburn
- Underground Drilling Hapeville
- Underground Drilling Johns Creek
- Underground Drilling Milton
- Underground Drilling Mountain Park
- Underground Drilling Palmetto
- Underground Drilling Roswell
- Underground Drilling Sandy Springs
- Underground Drilling Union City
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