Dallas & DFW Metroplex
Dallas Utility Locating & GPR Scanning
Private utility locating, ground penetrating radar, and concrete scanning for Dallas contractors, engineers, and surveyors. We identify buried and shifted lines before excavation, directional boring, trenching, or coring across Dallas County and the metroplex.
Clay Moves UtilitiesVerify where lines sit today, not on old records
Why DFW Sites Are Different
North Texas "black gumbo" clay moves the utilities under your site
More than 90% of North Texas sits on expansive Blackland Prairie clay, Eagle Ford Shale, Taylor Marl, and Houston Black. It swells when wet and shrinks in drought, moving the ground four to eight inches a season. That movement stresses and shifts buried lines, so decades-old as-builts across Dallas rarely match what's actually underground today.
- Seasonal 4 to 8 inch ground movement that ruptures and drifts buried utilities.
- Layered downtown and industrial lines from generations of DFW construction.
- Wet clay that attenuates GPR, which is why we lead with EM and tune every scan.
- Private lines beyond Texas 811 across commercial, industrial, and civil sites.
