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Excavation in Stevensville, MT

Acreage builds, septic systems, private roads and grading in Stevensville, from a Ravalli County certified septic installer.

Your Stevensville Excavation Contractor

Stevensville sits in the middle of the Bitterroot Valley, and a lot of the land around it is open ground: pasture, acreage and building sites with room for a shop. When you start from bare land, excavation is the first real step toward a house.

We're Elevated Dirt Works, an excavation contractor based up the valley in Lolo. We're locally owned, licensed, bonded and insured, and we hold Ravalli County's septic installer certification. For acreage owners, that means one contractor for the road in, the building site, the septic and the utility trenches.

Builders around Stevensville hire us too. We keep to the schedule, speak up early if something changes and leave the site ready for the next trade. Estimates are free, and we do them on the property rather than from a plat map.

Excavation Projects We Do in Stevensville

The biggest piece of an acreage build is often the part nobody notices in the finished photos. A private road has to hold up to concrete trucks and spring thaw. The building pad has to be level and compacted. Water has to drain off the site instead of pooling against the foundation. We build roads on a proper base, grade for drainage and set the site up so construction goes smoothly. Then comes the septic, which in this county needs a certified installer. Having one crew handle all of it means the septic location, the driveway and the pad get planned together instead of fighting each other.

Septic in Stevensville: Ravalli County Certified

In Ravalli County, septic installers have to be certified by the county. Elevated Dirt Works holds that certification, which is one less thing to check when you're lining up contractors for a Stevensville build.

The county's environmental health office issues the permit, based on a site evaluation and the system design, and nothing is installed until it does. We dig the test pits for that evaluation, install to the approved design and have the system ready for inspection. Montana811 locates come first; that's the law. If an older system is failing, we can also dig out and replace it once the new design is approved. Building closer to Hamilton? Our certification covers the whole county.

Client Testimonials

Elevated Dirt Works has been my go to for all excavation needs. EDW is always a pleasure to work with in the busy and challenging world of building and construction. EDW is truly elevated above the rest when it comes to scheduling and communication. Confident, patient and trustworthy is what you can expect from EDW. Doing business with EDW is a pleasure from start to finish.

Greg DuPontTradeworks Construction

Elevated Dirt Works is crushing it on our tight site. I continue to be impressed with these guys, and am so thankful they are on the dream team building our big addition!

Caleb KasperBrome Design Build

Planning a Project in Stevensville?

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