Directional drilling in Atlanta and Fulton County

Serving Atlanta · Fulton County

Davis Underground Solutions, Inc.

Directional drilling, auger boring and utility installation across Georgia; locates, bore plan and permits handled. It's boring. But we dig it.

(678) 264-3333

The line goes under, not through

Every utility that reaches a building in Fulton County has to get there underground, and the straight line from the main to the meter almost always runs under something expensive to cut: a street the city just resurfaced, a stamped driveway in Buckhead, a restaurant's only parking lot, a creek with a buffer, a row of oaks. A directional drilling crew sets a rig at one end, drills a steerable pilot hole under all of it, and pulls the pipe or conduit back through. The surface between the two pits is never opened. That is why developers, electricians, plumbers, fiber builders and utilities across the county ask for it.

What goes in the ground

• Fiber-optic conduit and drops for the carriers and builders wiring Fulton County.
• Electrical conduit: feeds, services, site lighting, EV charging circuits.
• Water services and mains under streets, driveways and creeks.
• Sewer force mains and laterals where the route crosses pavement or water.
• Gas mains and services to Atlanta Gas Light's standard.
• Steel casings for road, rail and MARTA crossings by auger boring when the permit asks for one.

Each has a page of its own: start with directional drilling, fiber optic cable drilling and auger boring, or pick a service from the list below.

What is under Atlanta

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. 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.

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 company behind this site

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. The company is known for answering the phone and showing up on the date it gave, which in this trade is most of the battle. Davis Underground Solutions has the equipment list and project photos. Everything submitted on this site, and every call to the number at the top, goes directly to the company. Estimates are free. Call now: (678) 264-3333.

If you want the long version, Davis Underground Solutions has a page on drilling and boring services for Atlanta.

Estimates are free. Call now: (678) 264-3333.