Underground Utility Contractor in Jacksonville, FL

By land area, Jacksonville is the largest city in Florida. It covers about 747 square miles in Duval County and has an estimated 1,009,833 residents (2024 Census estimate). A city that size holds every kind of underground job, from a single lateral behind a house to miles of main serving new development.

Distance changes the plan

On a compact lot, an underground job is measured in feet. Across a large city, it can be measured in thousands of feet, and that changes almost every decision. Long water and force-main runs need a route that avoids existing utilities and crosses roads, drives and drainage features in as few places as possible. Each crossing is a choice between an open cut, with traffic control and pavement restoration, and a directional bore that leaves the surface in place.

The longer the run, the more value there is in knowing the ground and the existing lines along it before anything is ordered or dug. One-call marks show the public facilities; private lines and older records may need to be confirmed by exposing them with hydro excavation at the crossings.

For a single property, the questions are the same at a smaller scale: where the line runs, what it passes under and how the surface is restored.

Who we work for

In Jacksonville, we work for public utilities, developers, general contractors, commercial and industrial owners, and homeowners.

Sunshine 811 before digging

Florida law, Chapter 556 of the Florida Statutes, asks excavators to contact Sunshine 811 before digging so that the owners of buried facilities can mark them. The law (section 556.105) sets the notice at no less than two full business days, weekends and holidays excluded, and keeps a ticket valid for 30 calendar days. Work in public rights-of-way also needs the right-of-way owner's permit and restoration conditions.

Jacksonville and nearby cities

Among the communities near Jacksonville are Jacksonville Beach, Atlantic Beach, Neptune Beach, Orange Park, Callahan and Baldwin. We serve those communities as well. Send the address, the kind of line, the work you need and any drawings, and we will follow up with questions before proposing an approach.