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Three of nine rigs, one program
Around-the-clock operationsWater Resource Construction · Est. 4 Generations · West Palm Beach, FL
Florida Design Drilling is a self-perform water infrastructure contractor. We design, drill, construct, test and rehabilitate the deep wells that supply, store and protect drinking water for millions of Floridians, and we build and upgrade the treatment plants they feed. From surficial supply wells to Class I injection wells 4,000 feet down, and from new design-build facilities to inside-the-fence plant work, one self-perform contractor carries it all.
Running large-diameter casingThree of nine rigs, one programAround-the-clock operationsSpud In · How to Read This Page
Beneath every Florida community sits a mile-deep column of sand, clay and limestone, and each layer does a different job for the people living above it. It's how we see the state, so it's how we organized this site: every section that follows is tagged with the formation and depth where that work happens, from the surficial sands to the Boulder Zone.
Surficial · 0–200 ft · Why This Work Matters
The American Society of Civil Engineers estimates $625 billion is needed to repair the nation's drinking water infrastructure. Nowhere is the pressure greater than Florida, where record growth, aging wellfields and tightening water-quality standards are converging at once. For the utilities and communities facing that pressure, we build the deep infrastructure that solves it.
Legacy wells, at-risk plants and buried infrastructure across Florida need replacement, rehabilitation or retirement. We help utilities get the most out of the assets they have: restoring well capacity, proving mechanical integrity, and upgrading and rehabilitating treatment plants from inside the fence, on programs often supported by WIFIA and State Revolving Fund dollars.
A thousand new residents a day, plus water-intensive industry, means traditional wellfields alone can't keep up. Utilities are turning to alternative water supply: brackish wellfields feeding desalination plants, aquifer storage & recovery, and reclaimed-water systems. Building those assets is what we do every day.
New water-quality rules, including PFAS limits, are pushing utilities toward advanced treatment like reverse osmosis. Those plants produce concentrate that has to go somewhere safe, and in Florida that means the Class I deep injection well: engineered, permitted under FAC 62-528, and completed thousands of feet below the deepest drinking water source. Few contractors are qualified to build them. We are.
SOURCE: ASCE INFRASTRUCTURE REPORT CARD
Spotlight · Everglades Restoration
The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan is the largest ecosystem restoration effort ever undertaken, and one of its cornerstone technologies is the aquifer storage & recovery well. Under the Lake Okeechobee Watershed Restoration Project, dozens of ASR wells will bank wet-season water deep in the aquifer instead of releasing it to the coasts, protecting the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee estuaries and holding that water in reserve for dry years.
This is generational work: a statewide buildout of exactly the wells we specialize in, large-diameter ASR and recharge wells into the Upper Floridan aquifer, exploratory and monitor wells, cycle testing and the hydrogeologic data programs that prove each site. Restoring the Everglades is, at its core, a drilling program. Florida Drilling builds this class of well for water managers and utilities across the state.
Upper Floridan · 900–1,400 ft · Capabilities
Turnkey construction of municipal and industrial Class I wells to 4,000+ ft under FAC 62-528: the disposal backbone for RO concentrate, reclaimed water and PFAS treatment residuals.
ASR wells that bank seasonal water underground, from utility drought reserves to the Everglades restoration programs reshaping how Florida stores water at basin scale.
Deep and surficial potable supply wells, brackish Floridan wellfields for RO plants, and complete wellhead facilities, delivered bid-build or as full design-build wellfield programs.
Mechanical integrity testing, casing repair, redevelopment and rehabilitation programs that restore capacity and extend asset life on wells already in service.
Design-build delivery of water and wastewater treatment facilities, pairing wellfield expertise with vertical plant construction so one contractor carries the project from source to finished water.
Upgrades, expansions and rehabilitation inside operating treatment plants: pumps, process piping, structures and equipment replacement, executed around live operations without interrupting treatment.
Aquifer performance testing, single- and dual-packer testing, coring, geophysical logging coordination and MIT: the regulatory evidence utilities need, delivered in-house.
Pump stations, wellhead equipment, above- and below-ground piping, chlorination and disinfection: the general contracting that ties the wellfield into the plant.
Ground Level · 0 ft · Inside the Fence
Treatment plants don't get built once and forgotten. They're repaired, upgraded, expanded and eventually replaced. We work across that entire arc as a self-perform contractor inside operating facilities: mechanical, process piping, structures and equipment, executed around live treatment that can never stop running.
Pump and equipment replacement, process piping, structural repairs and refurbishment on operating plants, keeping aging facilities reliable without interrupting service.
Process and compliance upgrades that bring plants to current standards: new treatment trains, electrical and controls, and the retrofits tightening regulations demand.
Capacity additions for growing service areas: new basins, trains, high-service pumping and storage, tied into live plants with careful sequencing and shutdown planning.
Full design-build delivery of new water and wastewater treatment facilities, with single-point responsibility from process design through startup and commissioning.
Building now: two design-build plants for the Village of Indiantown, a full replacement of its 60-year-old WWTP and a new brackish RO WTP fed by wells we're drilling ourselves, plus the design-build Floridan wellfield and injection wells serving Port St. Lucie's new 10 MGD Rangeline RO facility. Design-build delivery on both sides of the fence.
2 DB Plants + 1 DB Wellfield · One Company · In Construction
Indiantown RO WTP · Site work underwayUSDW Base · ~1,800 ft · The Fleet
Nine rigs, designed, built and maintained in-house and purpose-engineered for Florida's geology and Florida's neighborhoods. The heart of the fleet is all-electric: quiet enough for urban and residential sites, transportable on legal-weight loads, with on-site water management that keeps every project compliant with DEP discharge requirements. The result is a fleet that drills the state's deepest wells from some of its tightest sites. That capability can't be rented.
Florida built, American made
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Engineered in-houseConfining Unit · Built Like an Institution
Experienced deep-well crews don't scale on demand. Ours are developed in-house across generations, with rig-specific training and a leadership bench that has run this work for decades.
Engineered well-site setups, self-contained crew facilities and documented operating procedures on every project. Safety is a design input, not a compliance afterthought.
Our backlog is anchored by municipal utilities executing WIFIA-, SRF- and rate-funded capital programs: mandated work with dedicated dollars behind it.
Bonding capacity to run multiple large, complex projects concurrently, with professionalized accounting and project controls on a modern construction ERP.
Deep working knowledge of FAC 62-528, UIC permitting, FDEP coordination and the testing regimes that keep projects moving through approval.
Rigs, fabrication facilities, testing capability and crews under one roof: schedule certainty and quality control that subcontracted models can't match.
Lower Floridan · Selected Work
Design-build of the source and disposal backbone for the City's new 10 MGD Rangeline reverse osmosis facility: six Floridan aquifer supply wells, two injection wells and a monitor well. These are the wells that make an ~$80M plant possible in one of America's fastest-growing cities.
Design-build replacement of a treatment plant that served the Village for more than 60 years without major upgrade. The new facility is built for 7,000+ residents and the growth ahead, targeted operational in 2027.
New RO water treatment plant treating brackish Floridan aquifer supply, with the deep wells that feed it drilled by the same contractor. Wellfield to finished water, one team.
Pilot hole, casing program and dual-zone monitor well for a Class I injection system supporting regional water management and reuse.
Provenance · McVille, N.D. to West Palm Beach, FL
Before Florida Drilling, there was Ringdahl Well Drilling of McVille, North Dakota: Carl Ringdahl, a cable-tool rig, and a phone number that was just "31." The boys in the bandanas grew up on the rig floor. Their sons and grandsons still run the company. They just drill a mile deeper now.
The early years · McVille, N.D.
July 1956 · Ringdahl Well Drilling
1968 · The next generation in overalls
Today · 3rd & 4th generationThe rigs went from Bucyrus-Erie spudders to all-electric masts we engineer ourselves, and the wells went from farmstead water to 4,000-foot Class I completions. What didn't change is who's running them.
Leadership
Third-generation drilling contractor and co-owner, setting company strategy and leading major programs and client relationships across the Southeast.
Fourth-generation drilling contractor. B.S. Mechanical Engineering, UCF; formerly process mechanical engineer at CH2M Hill. Vice President of the Florida Ground Water Association.
Leads company-wide operations, project delivery and organizational performance across all divisions.
Geologist. Oversees well construction and plant programs from hydrogeologic planning and permitting through completion, working directly with clients’ engineers.
Now hiring drillers, derrickhands, operators, welders and mechanics statewide. Learn a trade that can't be automated, on some of the most advanced drilling rigs in the Southeast.
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