Excavation and land clearing in Falmouth, Maine.
Much of Falmouth's remaining building ground lies west of I-95. The 2024 Comprehensive Plan counts 3,154 acres of undeveloped land in town, only 94 acres of it served by both public water and sewer, and reports that nearly a quarter of new homes approved since 2014 went into the Farm and Forest District. Those projects begin with clearing and excavation on wooded, unsewered lots, and our own equipment covers the whole sequence: land clearing, foundation and site excavation, drainage trenching and retention pond work.
Ledge, till and wet ground
The NRCS soil survey explains why no two Falmouth excavations look alike. Lyman-Tunbridge and Lyman-Abram complexes, mapped as rocky or very rocky, carry bedrock within roughly 18 to 28 inches, so a cellar hole or a utility trench can hit ledge early. Paxton and Woodbridge soils formed in dense lodgment till, with a firm layer that perches water. Scantic silt loam is rated poorly drained. And Hinckley and Windsor sands are excessively drained outwash that dig easily but slump in an open trench.
Knowing which is under a site shapes the plan: where the foundation can sit, whether perimeter drains and curtain drains are needed, and how spoil piles are staged.
Permits that follow the disturbance
Falmouth holds a municipal stormwater (MS4) permit whose minimum measures include construction-site runoff control, and the town requires stormwater management for new development. At the state level, Maine DEP's Stormwater Management Law applies to projects with more than one acre of disturbed area — ground that is stripped, graded, excavated or filled.
Near water the limits are tighter. The town's shoreland overlay extends 250 feet from Highland Lake, the Presumpscot and Piscataqua rivers, tidal water and large wetlands, and 100 feet from streams. Inside the state's buffer strip, no canopy opening may exceed 250 square feet and no more than 40% of the volume of trees four inches or larger may come out in ten years; beyond it, clearing is limited to 25% of the lot or 10,000 square feet, whichever is greater. DEP advises checking with the local code enforcement officer before any clearing begins.
Vernal pools are a protected resource in Falmouth and are mapped townwide, another reason to walk a wooded lot before the first tree is cut and to flag any wet depressions for the permitting review.
Land Clearing · Site Work · Trenching
How we handle excavation & land clearing
We run our own excavation equipment, which means one crew takes your project from raw ground to ready: land clearing, foundation and site excavation, drainage trenching, and retention pond mowing and trenching for commercial properties.
See the full excavation & land clearing service page or everything we do in Falmouth, Maine.
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