24-inch directional bore
Municipal watermain crossing
Upper Midwest
A case study slot for a municipal watermain crossing bored rather than open-cut, which is the capability cities most often call us about.
Projects
What we have built, at the scale we build it. Whole-city fiber, utility-scale crossings, and municipal waterworks across five states.
Whole-city fiber build
City of Hastings whole-city fiber build
Hastings, Minnesota
A full-city fiber build is the largest thing an underground contractor can be asked to do in a single municipality. Every street in the city gets a path, every crossing has to be bored rather than cut, every driveway and boulevard has to be restored, and all of it happens in front of residents who live there.
Hastings is our home city, which meant there was nowhere to hide a bad week. We ran boring, plowing, and restoration crews across the city on one plan, bored the crossings so streets stayed open, and closed out block by block rather than leaving the whole city torn up waiting on a single restoration pass at the end.
It is the project we point to when an owner asks whether we can hold a schedule at city scale, because scale is exactly what makes a fiber build hard. A single long bore is a technical problem. A whole city is a coordination problem with several thousand small technical problems inside it.
Scale is the hard part, not the drilling
A single long bore is a technical problem, and technical problems have known answers. A whole-city build is a coordination problem with several thousand technical problems inside it, running at once, in front of residents who live on the street being opened.
That is why our capability page and our project page say the same thing in different words: the crews doing the boring, the plowing, the blowing, and the restoration have to be working one plan. When they are not, the schedule is set by whichever handoff went wrong most recently.
More work
Case studies in progress
These are the project types we are documenting next. Each will get scope, footage, and duration once the detail is confirmed with the owner.
Plowing and boring package
Rural fiber mileage
Upper Midwest
A case study slot for a long rural build where plowing carried the mileage and directional boring took the crossings.
Mixed aerial and underground build
Aerial and underground route
Upper Midwest
A case study slot for a mixed route, where the value of one contractor shows up at the transitions between overhead and underground.
Ask us about a project like yours
If the scope you are bidding resembles something we have built, we would rather walk you through that job than send a capability sheet.
- Whole-city fiber builds, planned and closed out block by block.
- Utility-scale crossings under highways, rail, rivers, and wetlands.
- Municipal watermain bores up to 24 inches, in 5 states.
- Mixed aerial and underground routes handled by one contractor at the transitions.
- Bore logs, placement records, and as-builts handed over at close.
Request a bid
Send us the scope.
Plans, a route, a permit set, or a description of the crossing. We will come back with questions before we come back with a number, because a bid built on assumptions helps nobody.
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- Building across MN, ND, SD, IA, WI
- Boring, plowing, blowing, excavation, waterline, and aerial
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Tell us about the project and an estimator will follow up.