Southeast Drilling Services provides a broad range of wellfield services to Florida municipalities, with notable expertise in deep injection wells and mechanical work. An operating rig fleet and a longstanding, licensed driller base are paired with a recurring rehabilitation and service program built on a large and growing installed well base.
Southeast Drilling Services provides a complete range of services across the life of a municipal water supply site, each delivered to the project's required specifications. From well drilling and development through pump installation, mechanical systems, underground piping, electrical controls and startup, we coordinate and deliver the complete project, then continue with inspection, maintenance, repair and rehabilitation to extend the service life of every well.
Casing seats land where the confining unit actually is, logged in real time, not where a boring log two miles away said it would be. Lost circulation in vuggy limestone is a condition we manage, not a change order.
Class I injection wells are among the most demanding work in Florida water infrastructure. We complete them in the Boulder Zone and keep them in compliance on the testing cycle the rule sets, building on each well's history from one test to the next.
Storage and recovery depend on confinement holding where it was found. Confining units pinch out between one wellfield and the next, so we log in real time and complete each well to the formation it actually meets.
Complete delivery from pilot hole through certified raw water pump station and clearance for service, self-performed rather than coordinated. We stay accountable past the warranty period because we are the ones who will service it.
A well that produces water is not yet a well that delivers it. Our mechanical crews size, install and service equipment for the well as it is, and for what the formation will do to it over the next twenty years.
Much of Florida's municipal supply was drilled thirty to fifty years ago. We work on wells we did not drill, and restoring one costs a fraction of replacing it, because the permit, the site and the interconnection already exist.
By combining specialized drilling operations, mechanical construction and coordinated subcontractor services, we maintain responsibility for scheduling, quality and performance from mobilization through commissioning.
Permitting, equipment and crew readiness
Rig mobilization and initial spud
Complete well construction
Piping, pump station and controls
Performance testing and development
Regulatory sign-off and turnover
Restore, retrofit and return the well to service
Southeast Drilling Services provides maintenance, testing, repair and rehabilitation services throughout the life of a wellfield. Our experience in both construction and service allows us to help customers maintain reliable performance, extend the useful life of existing wells and maximize their investment in water supply infrastructure.
On complex wellfield work, experience keeps projects on schedule, in compliance and performing as designed. Our clients benefit from technical expertise, experienced field personnel and coordinated project management.
Licensed well contractors, a Florida PE and a certified General Contractor on staff.
Injection, ASR and deep monitoring wells few Florida drillers are qualified to build.
Day-to-day experience with Florida regulators and water management districts.
Longstanding work with consulting engineers designing municipal wellfields.
Bonding capacity to take on major public water and infrastructure projects.
Challenging drilling conditions demand specialized knowledge and experience.
Our experience includes repeat work for municipalities and regional water authorities on production wells, injection wells, wellfield improvements, maintenance and rehabilitation.
Aquifer recharge program sites and a county-wide well maintenance contract.
Morris Bridge Wellfield improvements and an as-needed well pump repair contract.
New production wells and a managed aquifer recharge well.
Plymouth Regional Well No. 3 improvements, completed.
Well services under a five-year term contract.
Well and pump replacement term work.
The Ziegler family has worked in Florida water well construction since 1968. Today, the company continues that tradition in complex municipal water well and infrastructure projects.
Through a succession of family companies, that experience led to Southeast Drilling Services, founded in 1994 to pair it with a background in water resource engineering. The result is a contractor that can both design and build the wells Florida utilities depend on, and that structures every job team around the technical expertise the project requires.
In 2021 the company sharpened its focus on mechanical and maintenance work: pump, wellhead and controls service, underground piping and electrical work, scheduled maintenance programs and rehabilitation.
Our model has stayed the same: the right equipment and the right people, in the right place, at the right time.
Bill Ziegler begins drilling water wells in Florida.
Licensed as a Florida water well contractor when the Florida Water Resources Act establishes state licensure.
The family business grows into Diversified Drilling, building production, irrigation, monitoring and ASR wells across the state.
Bill and Brian Ziegler found Drilling Consultants, carrying the family's well construction work forward.
Bart Ziegler, P.E. founds Southeast Drilling Services in Tampa, adding engineering to the family's drilling expertise. The family's operations later unite under one name.
Serving counties, cities and regional water authorities on supply, injection, ASR and service work.
Owner-operators who hold the engineering and well contractor licenses that qualify us for complex municipal work.
Florida Professional Engineer and licensed water well contractor. Leads company strategy, estimating, technical oversight, major project management and relationships with municipal owners and consulting engineers.
Licensed water well contractor with extensive experience in production, ASR and injection well construction. Directs field operations, crew and equipment coordination, construction scheduling and project execution.
Active in Florida well construction since 1968. Brings decades of experience building and managing production, irrigation, monitoring and ASR well programs throughout Florida.
For bid invitations, prequalification packages and plan-holder lists, or to discuss an upcoming wellfield program, contact our Tampa office.
10614 E US Highway 92
Tampa, Florida 33610
Licensed Florida Water Well Contractor
Florida Certified General Contractor
Registered Florida Professional Engineer