Excavation and land clearing in North Yarmouth, Maine.
Much of North Yarmouth's growth has come as new houses on wooded or open land, with no public sewer and limited public water, according to the 2018 Comprehensive Plan. Each of those starts with the same work: clear the site, cut the driveway, dig the foundation, and set up drainage and septic.
We run our own excavation equipment for land clearing, foundation and site excavation, drainage trenching, and retention pond work, so one crew handles the ground from trees to finished grade.
Permits that come before the machine
The Land Use Ordinance requires a Driveway/Road Entrance Permit from the Code Enforcement Officer before any new driveway meets a public street. In the Royal River Corridor Overlay, which covers land within 500 feet of the Royal River, Chandler Brook and the East Branch, clearing vegetation needs Planning Board site plan review, and filling or earth moving of 10 cubic yards or more needs a permit. Site plan review there asks for a marked building envelope and a written description of erosion controls during and after construction.
Moving more than 1,000 cubic yards of soil, loam, sand, gravel or rock in a 12-month period is regulated as mineral extraction and, when commercial, needs Maine DEP review; new extraction is barred in the Groundwater Protection Overlay. Balancing cut and fill on the lot keeps most house sites well under that line.
Ledge, silt and water table on the dig
NRCS soil maps show why no two North Yarmouth sites dig the same. Stony Paxton and Woodbridge till on the uplands brings boulders and, at depth, a dense layer that slows water; Lamoine and Scantic silts around the village are very deep but wet; Windsor sand digs easily but will not hold a steep trench wall. Floodplain soils such as Podunk and Ondawa line the river, and the ordinance prohibits building in the 100-year floodplain.
Drainage trenching and foundation drains are planned around those conditions, and any storm water impoundment in the main districts goes through site plan review. Disturbed ground is stabilized within a week of last work under the town's erosion standards, then graded, loamed and seeded.
Clearing debris is handled too. Brush and trees under 24 inches can go to the town's residents-only brush facility by appointment, stumps cannot, and open burning of brush needs a permit through the Maine Forest Service, so disposal is settled as part of the clearing plan.
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.
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