Directional drilling in Miami and Miami-Dade County

Serving Miami · Miami-Dade County

Davis Underground Solutions, Inc.

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

(855) 520-2670

Rock, water and a canal every half mile

Miami-Dade was built on limestone with the water table at the surface and a grid of canals to drain it. Every new utility has to cross a canal, an expressway, a rail line or a street that cannot close, and every trench fills with water and hits rock. A directional drilling crew with a rock bit sets a rig at one end, drills a steerable pilot hole under all of it and pulls the pipe or conduit back through; nothing between the two pits is opened. That is why WASD, FPL, the county, the cities, developers, electricians, plumbers and fiber builders ask for it.

What goes in the ground

• Fiber-optic conduit and drops for the carriers, data centers and campuses wiring Miami-Dade.
• Electrical conduit: FPL feeds, services, site lighting, EV charging circuits.
• Water services and mains under streets, driveways and canals.
• Sewer force mains and laterals where the route crosses pavement or water.
• Gas mains and services to TECO Peoples Gas's standard.
• Steel casings for expressway, FEC and Metrorail crossings by auger boring when the permit asks for one.

Each has a page of its own: start with directional drilling, utility drilling and electrical conduit drilling, or pick a service from the list below.

What the ground changes

The Miami Limestone sits a foot or two under the fill across the coastal ridge: a rock bit, steady rotation and a fluid plan for porous rock, because the rock drinks drilling fluid. West of the ridge the marl and peat of the old Everglades take over, soft and wet. The water table is at the surface everywhere, so every pit is dewatered and every trench is a bad idea.

Permits and owners

Miami-Dade County for its roads and canal crossings, the South Florida Water Management District on its primary canals, FDOT District 6 for I-95 and the state routes, the Greater Miami Expressway Agency for the toll roads, Metrorail and the FEC and CSX for their corridors, and 34 municipalities for their own streets. FPL, WASD and TECO own most of the lines. Sunshine 811 opens every job.

The company behind this site

Davis Underground Solutions, Inc. is a Georgia drilling contractor with its own directional rigs, auger boring machines, vac truck and crews, working across the Southeast; Miami-Dade is the far end of its Florida territory, and mobilization is written as one line on the estimate so the whole number is known before anyone decides. The company is known for answering the phone and showing up on the date it gave. 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: (855) 520-2670.

More on directional boring throughout Florida is on the Davis Underground Solutions site, with the equipment list and photos from recent jobs.

Estimates are free. Call now: (855) 520-2670.