MacDriller, Inc.

06/21/2026

Another beautiful subaqueous directional boring project built with American Boring & Trenching, inc. for the local power company. This crossing has not been completed by ANY other utility due to the dense compacted clay soils beneath Stevenson Creek (N-values at 58/0.3!).

This project was first surveyed and permitting documents were submitted 3 years ago. The effort underwent extensive coordination with state and federal environmental agencies, the City of Clearwater, and FDOT to minimize impacts on the public. The goal was to get the waterfront open for America’s 250th birthday and Clearwater’s fireworks viewing! This goal will be met this week.

This project installed two 8” HDPE over 720LF and used wireline steering & tracking and was installed over 30 feet deep. The conduits will be used for 2 feeders of 3-phase power.

05/20/2026

This is a win for excavators who are constantly being held up by unresponsive utility locate companies. These locators consistently fail to meet the 2-business day marking requirement per Chapter 556 (FL Statutes) and often give a code of “3F” which means the locator and excavator have agreed on a delay. Very often this is not true. Now Sunshine811 has implemented a method to document that an excavator has agreed to this delay.

Thank you !

Beginning June 1, 2026   When using the 3F positive response code , members and locators must enter the following in the designated 3F comment field:  Date and time the agreement was made [ Format: 01-01-26; 01:15 AM/PM ]  Name and phone number of the excavator wh