Underground Utility Contractor in Columbus, OH

Columbus is the largest city in Franklin County and in Ohio, with an estimated 933,263 residents (2024 Census estimate) on about 222 square miles of land. Most of it lies in Franklin County, and parts extend into neighboring counties.

Building new and renewing old

A large city keeps underground contractors busy in two directions at once. Where new neighborhoods, warehouses and offices are built, they need complete utility packages: storm and sanitary sewer set to grade, water mains and services, fire lines, and conduit for power and communications. In established areas, existing lines need repair and replacement: laterals with roots, leaking services, separated storm pipe, mains that their owners have scheduled for renewal.

Both kinds of work follow the same discipline:

Locate and confirm

OUPS receives the locate request; the owner's drawings and the utilities' records are reviewed; existing lines near the work are exposed with hydro excavation.

Choose the method

An open trench where the surface can be opened, a directional bore beneath roads, drives and finished areas.

Build and inspect

The line is installed or repaired to the owner's specification and inspected where required.

Restore

Backfill in layers and surface restoration to the standard of the surface's owner.

In Columbus, we work for developers, general contractors, building owners, homeowners and public owners. Because the city spans county lines, include the exact address.

OUPS before excavation

Ohio's one-call system is the Ohio Utilities Protection Service (OUPS), under Ohio Revised Code 3781.25 to 3781.38. Section 3781.28 requires notice at least two working days ahead, leaving out the day of notice, and excavation must begin within 16 calendar days of the notice, as the law has no fixed ticket life. Work in public streets also follows the right-of-way owner's conditions.

Columbus and nearby cities

Grandview Heights, Bexley, Marble Cliff, Valleyview, Whitehall and Upper Arlington are among the cities near Columbus. We work in all of them too.

Send the address, the kind of line, the work you need and any drawings or photos. We read each request ourselves and come back with questions and a proposed approach.