South Florida's Underground Specialists

Private Utility Locating & Soft Digs
Across South Florida

Licensed, insured utility potholing and utility locator services serving civil engineers, general contractors, municipalities, and utilities across Broward, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach counties. Precision utility excavation with minimal disruption. Zero damage. Full compliance.

5,000+
Test Holes Completed
6+
Florida Counties Served
24hr
Mobilization Available
SUE
ASCE 38-02 Compliant
Licensed & Insured
GPR Technology
ASCE 38-02 Compliant
All South Florida Counties
Fast Mobilization
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Utility Designating & SUE Services
in Florida

From private utility locating and GPR scanning to vacuum excavation and SUE-compliant utility mapping — we protect your project, your crew, and your liability. Our precision utility potholing and soft dig methods cause minimal disruption to active job sites, and our utility locator services are available same-day across South Florida.

Private Utility Locating

Electromagnetic and GPR-based locating of privately owned underground utilities not marked by 811 Sunshine State One Call. Critical for any excavation near existing infrastructure in South Florida.

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GPR Scanning

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) scanning detects all subsurface utilities, voids, rebar, post-tension cables, and anomalies — including non-conductive lines 811 cannot locate in Broward and Miami-Dade.

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Vacuum Excavation

Soft dig vacuum excavation using vac truck and air compressor/barrel methods. Non-destructive excavation around live utilities in tight urban corridors across Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade.

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Utility Potholing / Daylighting

Expose and verify the exact depth, size, and material of underground utilities through precision test holes — protecting your crew and confirming design clearances before construction in South Florida.

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Utility Mapping

SUE (Subsurface Utility Engineering) mapping per ASCE 38-02 Quality Levels A–D. We deliver accurate CAD deliverables for civil engineers and municipalities managing complex South Florida utility corridors.

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Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE)

ASCE 38-02 compliant subsurface utility engineering for South Florida design teams — utility designating and test hole data delivered by Quality Level A through D, in the format your reviewers and permitting authorities expect.

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Why South Florida's Engineers &
Contractors Choose Us

Utility locating technician tracing an underground line with electromagnetic and GPR equipment on a South Florida job site

GPR on Every Project, Not as an Upsell

Electromagnetic locating only finds what conducts a signal. Plastic water main, HDPE gas, PVC irrigation and abandoned conduit stay invisible to it — and those are the lines that get struck. We run ground penetrating radar alongside EM induction on every project so non-conductive utilities are found before a bucket goes in the ground.

That is also our damage-prevention position: we would rather spend an extra hour scanning than explain a strike to your client.

Measuring depth to top of pipe in an open test hole for ASCE 38-02 Quality Level A data

Measured Depths, Not Estimated Ones

Record drawings establish approximate horizontal position and almost never establish reliable depth. A test hole does. We expose the utility, measure depth to top of pipe, record size and material, and tie it to a surveyable reference.

All investigations follow ASCE 38-02 subsurface utility engineering standards, delivered by Quality Level A through D so your reviewers can see exactly what was verified and what was not.

US Utility Potholing vacuum excavation truck and crew equipment in Pompano Beach, Florida

Licensed, Insured, and Ready to Mobilize

Fully licensed in Florida and carrying the general and professional liability coverage that civil engineering firms and municipalities require before you can be on their site.

South Florida construction moves fast, so we hold 24-hour mobilization as the standard for most Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach county work, with emergency potholing available when a crew is already standing down at a conflict.

Serving All of South Florida

Based in Pompano Beach, we cover the entire South Florida tri-county region and surrounding areas. From downtown Miami to West Palm Beach, our crew is on the road daily.

Deliverables That Go Straight
Into Your Design

APWA color coded field markings from a private utility locate in South Florida

Field Markings

APWA colour-coded paint and flags on the ground, with offsets where the surface will not take paint. Photographed before we leave site.

Exposed utility in an open test hole with depth measured to top of pipe

Measured Depths

Every test hole records depth to top of pipe, outside diameter, and material — read off the exposed utility, not interpolated from a record drawing.

Utility mapping deliverable with GPS referenced test hole locations

Mapping & KMZ

GPS-referenced test hole locations and utility alignments, delivered to ASCE 38-02 Quality Levels so reviewers can see what is verified.

Before You Break Ground

What is utility potholing, and when do I need it?

Utility potholing (also called daylighting) uses vacuum excavation to open a small, precise test hole and physically expose a buried utility, so its depth, size and material are measured rather than assumed. You need it any time a design crosses an existing line, a bore or trench has to clear a utility, or record drawings are the only depth information you have.

Doesn't 811 already mark everything?

No. 811 (Sunshine State One Call) notifies public utility owners to mark their own lines. It does not cover privately owned utilities — site electrical, irrigation, private telecom, fire suppression, or anything downstream of the meter. Those lines are found by private utility locating, and on most commercial sites they are the majority of what is in the ground.

How fast can you mobilize in South Florida?

We hold 24-hour mobilization as the standard for most Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach County work, and we reply to quote requests within two business hours. Emergency potholing is available when a crew is already standing down at a conflict.

What do I receive when the work is done?

APWA colour-coded field markings photographed before we leave site, a test hole record giving depth to top of pipe with outside diameter and material read off the exposed utility, and GPS-referenced mapping or KMZ delivered to ASCE 38-02 Quality Levels A through D so your reviewers can see exactly what was verified.

Which areas do you cover?

Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties are our core service area, with regular work in Collier, Lee and St. Lucie counties. Coverage beyond the tri-county region — including Naples, Fort Myers, Orlando and Tampa — is scheduled as a multi-day deployment.

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