Drilling & boring

Utility drilling in Fulton County

For the utility, the engineer and the general contractor: how crossings and mains get bored in Fulton County, who permits them, and what this crew brings.

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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 →

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The heavy end

Utility drilling means larger rigs, longer shots, bigger product and an owner with a specification: a water main under a state route, a force main under a creek, a gas main along a corridor that cannot be trenched, a duct bank for a signal system. The bore is designed to the owner's standard for depth, cover and product, drilled and tracked to that plan, and documented with an as-built the inspector signs.

Owners and agencies

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. 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.

Crossings

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.

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.

What the owner gets

A bore plan with profile and alignment for the permit, product handled to specification (HDPE fusion, restrained-joint PVC, steel casing by auger bore where a casing is called for), a tracked bore with an as-built, and restored pits. 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 list 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.

Underground Drilling Fulton County

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 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.

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 utility drilling in Fulton County

Pipe sizes?+

Services through mains in the 4- to 16-inch range by directional drill, larger by cased auger bore.

HDPE fusion?+

Yes; fused into one string ahead of the pull-back and tested as the owner requires.

Bore profile for the GDOT permit?+

Yes; plan and profile with depths, entry and exit angles and clearances are prepared for the application.

Inspection?+

The permitting agency and the owner; the crew schedules it and provides the as-built.

Quote on a crossing?+

Send the plan sheet through the form or call (678) 264-3333 now. Estimates are free; reply within 24 hours.

Utility 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.

ZIP codes served

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