Excavation in Bombay, New York
Bombay is a short run northwest. Flat, open farm country where the utility trenching and the drainage do most of the talking.
Bombay is a short run northwest from Moira through open farm country. We clear lots, dig building pads, put in septic systems, cut in driveways, and trench the water lines, power entrances and drain lines that a house on raw land needs before anybody can move in.
Doing all of it with one outfit is the point. On a new build the trenches, the pad and the septic all want to happen while the machines are already on the property and the ground is already open. Split across four contractors and you pay for the same ground to be opened four times.
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Getting Water And Power To The House
On a rural Bombay lot the water line runs from the well to the house and has to sit below the frost line, which up here means real depth. The exact figure comes from your code officer, and northern New York jurisdictions commonly sit in the five to six foot range. The power entrance is the same story: a trench and an underground run into the house. We do the trench and the run, and your electrician does the hookup. We will coordinate with them on timing.
Drainage is the third trench and the one people forget until it is expensive. Drain lines that take water away from the foundation cost very little while the ground is open and a great deal once the driveway is stoned and the lawn is seeded. If you are building, tell us up front and it all goes in on one pass.
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Flat Ground, Fine Soils
This is low, flat country on the St. Lawrence side of the county, and the soils reflect it. A lot of the material through here is fine-grained calcareous glacial lake and marine sediment from when the Champlain Sea flooded these lowlands, which means clayey profiles that drain slowly and hold water into the spring.
None of that stops a build. It just means the grade around the house has to be set deliberately, drain lines have to actually go somewhere, and the septic design has to answer to the water table rather than ignore it. It also means being sensible about working a saturated site rather than churning it up because the calendar said so.
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Everything on a home site except the building itself. Pick the piece you need, or hand us the whole lot.
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Bombay Questions
We do the trench and the underground run. The hookup itself is your electrician's, and we will coordinate with them on timing.
Below the frost line, and up here that is deep. Your local code office sets the number for your job; northern New York jurisdictions commonly land in the five to six foot range.
That is how it should be done. If you tell us up front what the house needs, it all goes in while the ground is already open, which is a fraction of the cost of doing it later.
It goes by the job rather than a published rate, because the length of the run and what is in the ground decide most of it. The saving worth knowing about is timing: the same trench costs a fraction while the site is already open.
Yes, and it is a legal requirement. Dig Safely New York is 811, and existing utilities get located and marked before a machine opens the ground. We take care of that on our jobs.
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Bombay is one stop on the run. The full list is on the service areas page.
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