Industrial directional drilling in Georgia

Inside the fence

Georgia's industrial sites run on utilities that cross rail spurs, truck courts, pipe racks and process areas that never shut down. A bore puts the new line underneath without an excavation across the yard: power feeders between substations and buildings, process water and fire lines, compressed air and gas, control and fiber conduit, drainage. Large-diameter casings go in by auger bore under the spur and the haul road; everything else by directional drill.

Industrial sites across the state

• Manufacturing plants, automotive and battery facilities, and their suppliers.
• Paper and pulp mills, chemical plants and food processors.
• The Port of Savannah, the Port of Brunswick and the inland ports.
• Distribution centers and intermodal yards along I-75, I-85, I-16 and I-20.
• Power plants, solar farms and substations.
• Military installations and their contractors.

Working in a plant

Badging, safety orientation, hot-work and confined-space procedures where the pits need them, track protection and railroad flagging on the spurs, and a bore schedule built around production. Private utility locates are done by the crew before the public 811 marks are trusted alone.

Ground and permits

Georgia is three different drilling states stacked on top of each other. North of the Fall Line, which runs roughly Columbus to Macon to Augusta, the Piedmont puts red clay over saprolite over granite and gneiss, and the rock can sit a few feet down or forty. South of that line the Coastal Plain is sand, clay and marl with a high water table and almost no rock. In the northwest corner the ridges are limestone and shale, with the caves to prove it. The bit, the fluid and the production rate all change with the region, which is why the first question on any estimate is the address. Right-of-way permits come from whoever owns the road: GDOT for state routes and interstates through its seven districts, the county public works department for county roads, the city for city streets, Norfolk Southern and CSX for rail crossings, the Corps of Engineers and Georgia EPD where a bore passes under a navigable river or a protected wetland, and the airport or base authority on federal ground. Davis Underground Solutions, Inc. prepares the bore plan the permit asks for and files it.

Davis Underground Solutions, Inc. is headquartered in Powder Springs, west of Atlanta, and runs the whole state. Metro Atlanta and the counties around it are home range with no mobilization fee; Columbus, Macon, Augusta, Savannah, Albany, Valdosta and everywhere between are a quoted mobilization and a crew that has already been there. Being the drilling company that actually picks up the phone and shows up is most of why the company works across Georgia. Davis Underground Solutions has the equipment list. Estimates are free. Call now: (678) 264-3333.

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

Services for industrial work in Georgia

Other customers

• Residential directional drilling in Georgia — Homes, driveways and yards: service lines and sleeves without tearing up the property.
• Commercial directional drilling in Georgia — Site utilities, parking-lot crossings and duct banks for shopping centers, offices and restaurants.
• Municipal directional drilling in Georgia — Water, sewer, fiber and signal conduit under live streets for cities, counties and utilities.

Questions from industrial customers