Scott County, Iowa
Underground Utility Contractor in Davenport, IA
Blackstone Utilities builds and repairs underground utilities in Davenport, Iowa. The work covers fiber optic installation, power conduit, water main and sewer line installation and repair, storm sewer, excavation and trenching, directional drilling, hydro vacuum services and emergency utility repair. Every Davenport project is planned and dispatched from our headquarters in Huntley, Illinois.
Davenport is the largest city in Scott County, with an estimated 100,938 residents (2024 Census estimate) on about 64 square miles of land. Several of the communities around it are in Illinois.
Owners with sites in two states
Some owners operate sites on both sides of a state line: a business with a location in Iowa and another in Illinois, or a property manager with buildings in each. Their underground work is planned the same way in both places, but the rules that frame it come from each state.
What changes from one side to the other:
The one-call center
In Iowa, locate requests go to Iowa One Call; in Illinois, to JULIE. Each has its own notice period and its own rules for how long a locate stays valid.
The local owners
Each city's water and sewer systems set their own requirements for connections, materials, permits and inspections.
The paperwork
Permits, inspections and restoration standards are handled separately for each site.
What stays the same is the work itself: locate and review records, expose existing lines with hydro excavation, install or repair by trench or directional drilling, test, inspect and restore.
We also handle water service, lateral, storm and conduit work for single-site homeowners and businesses in Davenport.
Iowa One Call
In Iowa, Iowa Code chapter 480 requires notice to Iowa One Call before excavation. Iowa Code section 480.4 requires 48 hours of notice, counted from 6:00 a.m. on the next business day without weekends or holidays, and a ticket stays valid for 25 calendar days. A site across the state line uses JULIE instead.
Davenport and nearby cities
Eldridge, Bettendorf and Riverdale in Iowa, and Rock Island, Moline and Milan in Illinois, are near Davenport. We serve those communities as well; both states are in our service area.
Include the exact address with every request, and say if the owner has sites in both states. We reply with our questions and a proposed approach.
Services in Davenport
Each page covers the scope, the method and what to send for a quote.
Working with us in Davenport
- Call us or request a quote. Calls and quote requests for Davenport, IA go straight to our headquarters in Huntley, Illinois, open Mon-Fri 7:00 AM-7:00 PM CT.
- We scope the job. We review the site, the utility and the specifications with you and propose a method and a schedule.
- We plan and dispatch the work from Huntley, Illinois. Our headquarters plans and dispatches every job across the states we serve.
Davenport at a glance
- State
- Iowa
- County
- Scott County
- Population
- An estimated 100,938 residents (2024 Census estimate)
- Land area
- 64.2 square miles (Census)
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