Excavation and land clearing in Westbrook, Maine.
Most of Westbrook's open land is on its edges. The 2012 Comprehensive Plan describes residential subdivisions in the north putting pressure on large forested and field tracts, and it counts about 766 acres in Tree Growth and 274 acres in the Farmland current-use programs. When a house site, a driveway or a drainage fix is cut out of that land, it is done with our own equipment: clearing, foundation and site excavation, drainage trenching, and retention pond work on commercial sites.
The same plan lists what tends to be under the surface on the city's rural parcels: steep slopes, high water table, upland wetlands and shallow-to-bedrock soils. Each of those affects how a site is dug, where spoil can go and how water is moved off the work.
Permits and thresholds that apply
Maine's erosion and sedimentation law applies to any soil disturbance, with barriers placed downslope before work begins and kept until the ground is stabilized; both the DEP and the city's code enforcement officers can enforce it. Once disturbed area passes one acre, the state's stormwater law adds a permit. Westbrook reviews most development under the subdivision and site plan sections of its Land Use Ordinance, and its review draws on the state's Beginning with Habitat maps.
In the shoreland zone along the Stroudwater, the western Presumpscot and Mill Brook, Resource Protection limits apply. A clearing plan in those areas is settled with the city before a machine is unloaded.
Trenching and drainage in wet ground
The marine clay that the Maine Geological Survey maps across lowland southern Maine drains slowly, and sites with a high water table flood trenches quickly in spring. Drainage trenching on those lots is usually scheduled for late summer, when the water table is at its lowest, with stone and pipe laid the same day the trench is opened.
Clearing debris is hauled off-site. Wood leaving a Westbrook site travels under the Maine Forest Service's emerald ash borer and hemlock woolly adelgid quarantines, which cover the city.
On commercial properties, retention and detention ponds are part of what keeps a site within its stormwater approval. Mowing those ponds and clearing their inlet and outlet trenches is routine site work, and we run it with the same equipment that cleared the site. A basin left to fill with brush and silt stops doing the job its approval was based on.
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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