Road & Highway Crossings in South Florida
The standard crossing runs 80 to 400 feet under somebody's pavement: one of dozens of municipalities, three county public-works departments, or FDOT on the state system under its utility accommodation manual. We build the permit package for the owner of record, pothole everything the locates claim, and bore with the fluid discipline this rock demands even on a short street shot — oolite doesn't care that the crossing is small.
Homeowner straight talk, network policy: open ground on your own property trenches cheaper than it bores, and in this metro's sandy surface soils that's doubly true — you'll hear it from us on the first call. Where a public road forces the crossing, real projects start at a $10,000 minimum; a rig, crew, locates, and traffic control have a floor at sea level too.
For utilities and GCs: alignment, product spec, and the road owner gets a quote back with permit scope, MOT, and vac-ex hours counted — the number that survives to the invoice.
Straight answers
Do you handle FDOT utility permits?
Yes — the state-system submittal with the bore plan attached, cover and location to the accommodation manual, and the district's realistic review window built into the schedule we quote rather than the optimistic one.
What about crossing under a swale or roadside ditch?
If that ditch is part of a drainage district's system, the district joins the permit picture even on a short shot — common here and easy to miss. We flag it at scope so the review time lives in the schedule, not in a surprise email.