Wet ground on a Pocono lot always has a cause. Roof water lands beside the foundation. A hillside pushes runoff at the back wall. Sawkill Environmental does stormwater drainage repairs and French drain installation around Milford.
We dig French drains and curtain drains, set catch basins and drain lines, and run culverts and cross pipes. The company runs its own excavators, so the drainage and the grading around it happen together. Sawkill Environmental is licensed and insured, PA HIC #PA225040, and estimates are free. Call or text (973) 552-8580.
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Soils around Milford formed in glacial till left by the ice, over sandstone and shale. Many of them hold a fragipan, a dense layer that water moves through slowly. That layer often sits within the first two or three feet of soil.
Rain soaks down, reaches the fragipan and stops. It spreads sideways and sits, which soil scientists call a perched water table. That is the water in your yard in April, and the damp on your basement wall. Shallow rock ledge does the same thing, and a hillside lot aims all of it at the house.
Wet ground can also come from the septic system. Soggy ground and odor over the absorption area usually point to a failing septic drainfield. We check that first, because the repair is a different job.
A French drain is a trench of washed stone with a perforated pipe in the bottom. Filter fabric wraps the stone so soil does not clog it. The pipe carries water to a lower spot and lets it out at daylight. Where the trench hits ledge, we break it out the same way we do foundation and trench work.
A curtain drain does the same work higher up the slope. It runs across the hill above the house and catches water before it arrives. On a steep lot the drain often pairs with a retaining wall, which carries stone and pipe behind it.
Catch basins take the water you can see. A grated box sits in the low spot, and a solid line carries it off to an outlet. We also re-run footing drain lines and the buried lines from downspouts out to daylight. Extension guidance puts roof water at least 10 feet from a house with a basement.
Pipe is not always the answer. On open ground a swale moves more water than a pipe and stays easier to keep clear. We cut swales and regrade low spots so the surface carries water to an outlet.
Culverts and cross pipes carry water under a road or an access lane. We size the pipe to the plan and set the ends so the banks hold. Where a pipe crosses a stream or a wetland, Pennsylvania reviews that work under Chapter 105. In Pike County those reviews go through the county conservation district.
Earth disturbance carries rules here. In Pennsylvania an erosion and sediment control plan starts at 5,000 square feet, and an NPDES permit at one acre. Every dig starts with 811. That is PA One Call here, New Jersey One Call and Dig Safely New York across the river.
Free, no-obligation estimates across the Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York tri-state area.
(973) 552-8580From the first call or text to the final grading, here is how it goes.
Call or text (973) 552-8580 and tell us about the property. New builds, empty lots and failing systems all start here.
We come out and look at the property, the soil and where a system can fit. Estimates are free.
We dig the soil test pits. The township sewage enforcement officer runs the probes and the percolation tests, and approves the design. In New Jersey and New York, the county health department issues the permit.
Once the permit is issued, we set the tank and run the lines to the distribution box. Then we build the absorption area to the approved design. Conventional in-ground beds and elevated sand mounds are both common on lots around here.
The system gets inspected before anything is covered. In Pennsylvania the township sewage enforcement officer does that inspection. Then we backfill, grade the ground back out and clean up the site.
Common questions about drainage across the Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York tri-state area. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
We handle general excavation for homes and commercial sites around Milford: foundation and basement digs, footings, trenches and rock ledge. We run our own excavators and equipment, so the dig, the backfill and the compaction stay with one company.
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Site prep and grading for new homes, barns and commercial buildings around Milford. We build pads, cut and fill, place stone base and put in private roads and access lanes.
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Backups, wet ground over the drainfield and sewage odors mean a part of the system has failed. We dig it up, find the cause and repair or replace what quit working.
Learn MoreSawkill Environmental is licensed and insured, with Pennsylvania Home Improvement Contractor registration PA HIC #PA225040. That number is public, and you can look it up before you hire anyone.
We run our own excavators and equipment. That keeps the test pits, the install and the final grading on one schedule.
We work from Milford out about 25 miles. That covers Pike and Wayne counties in Pennsylvania, Sussex in New Jersey, and Orange and Sullivan in New York.
Estimates are free. We come out, look at the property and tell you what the job needs. Call or text (973) 552-8580.
French drain cost in Pennsylvania: per foot and whole job ranges from national guides, plus what rock, clay and hillside lots add to the price.
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Septic repair or full replacement in Pennsylvania: the signs, what can be fixed, what the township requires, and published market cost ranges.
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