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Basalt Excavation & Concrete

Scope of work

Dirt, pipe, and concrete.

Five scopes, run by our own crews on our own iron. Here's exactly what each one includes — and the moment in a project when you'll need it.

Crews
4 field crews
Bid turnaround
5 business days
Smallest job
Half a day
Largest cut
30,000 yd³
A dozer sitting in a graded dirt field under an overcast sky
Excavator digging into a dirt bank on an active site

When you need it

You have a lot and a plot plan, and the pad has to be right before anyone pours anything.

01 Basalt scope

Excavation & Grading

Cut, fill, balance. We take a raw lot to a staked, compacted pad your framer can start on.

What's included

  • Site strip, topsoil stockpile and haul-off
  • Mass excavation, cut-to-fill balancing
  • Building pad to ±0.10 ft of grade, compaction tested
  • Rough and finish grade, driveway subgrade
  • GPS machine control on lots over ½ acre
  • 1200-C erosion control: silt fence, rock entry, inlet protection
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Worker in a hard hat setting pipe in an open utility trench

When you need it

You're connecting a new build to the mains, or an old lateral finally gave up under the driveway.

02 Basalt scope

Utility Trenching

Water, sewer, storm, power, gas and conduit — dug, bedded, tested and backfilled to spec.

What's included

  • Water and sewer laterals from main to stub-out
  • Storm lines, catch basins, drywells, roof drain tie-ins
  • Dry utility joint trench — power, gas, comms conduit
  • Sand or 3/4-minus bedding, compacted lifts, no soft spots
  • Trench shoring and competent-person daily inspection
  • Air and hydro testing, video, as-built ties for the city
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Concrete being placed over a rebar mat on a foundation slab

When you need it

Pad's ready and the framer starts in two weeks. This is the pour that everything else is measured from.

03 Basalt scope

Foundations & Footings

Footings, stem walls and slabs formed square, tied to plan, and poured on a schedule you can frame against.

What's included

  • Footing excavation, forming and rebar per structural plans
  • Stem walls, frost walls, thickened-edge and monolithic slabs
  • Anchor bolts, hold-downs and embeds set to the template
  • Vapor barrier, capillary break, under-slab utility coordination
  • Damp-proofing and perimeter drain on stem-wall work
  • Inspection scheduled and met — we stand the callback
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Concrete mixer truck and excavator working together on a site

When you need it

The old drive is spidered with cracks, or the new shop needs a slab that can hold a lift.

04 Basalt scope

Concrete Flatwork

Driveways, shop slabs, patios, walks and approaches. Placed thick, jointed right, finished to last a winter.

What's included

  • Driveways and RV pads — 5" over compacted 3/4-minus
  • Shop, barn and garage slabs with fiber or mesh reinforcement
  • Patios, walkways, stairs and ADA-compliant approaches
  • Broom, salt, exposed aggregate and light-broom finishes
  • Saw-cut control joints on a 10–12 ft grid, not guesswork
  • Cure and seal, plus a written cure-and-care sheet
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Heavy tracked equipment working through broken rock and rubble

When you need it

Something has to come out before anything can go in — and the neighbors should barely notice.

05 Basalt scope

Demolition & Site Clearing

Structures down, slabs out, brush cleared, everything sorted and hauled. The lot goes back to dirt.

What's included

  • Residential and light-commercial structure demolition
  • Concrete and asphalt removal, crushed and recycled where we can
  • Brush, stump and blackberry clearing; tree grubbing
  • Outbuilding, foundation and buried-tank removal
  • Utility disconnect coordination and permit pulling
  • Load sorting — clean fill, metal, wood, landfill kept separate
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Also on the truck

The small stuff that still needs iron.

Half-day work we'll happily take on, usually bundled onto a job already in the neighborhood so you're not paying to move a machine.

  • Rock driveways

    3/4-minus over geotextile, crowned to drain.

  • French drains

    Perforated pipe, drain rock, sock, cleanouts.

  • Retaining walls

    Block and boulder walls to 4 ft without engineering.

  • Culverts

    Driveway approach culverts sized to county standard.

  • Pond & swale work

    Detention, bio-swales, rain gardens.

  • Winter erosion

    Straw wattle, hydroseed, 1200-C inspections.

  • Emergency repair

    Blown lateral or sinkhole — we carry a spare crew.

  • Haul & supply

    Rock, sand, topsoil and bark delivered by the yard.

Straight answer

What we don't do

Decorative stamped and stained concrete, asphalt paving, septic system design, and structural engineering. We'll tell you that on the phone instead of subbing it out at a markup — and we keep a short list of the people in Salem we'd hire ourselves.

Ask for the list when you call: (503) 555-0148

One scope or all five.
Same number, same crew.

Send a plot plan, a grading sheet, or three photos on your phone. We'll tell you what it takes and what it costs — free site visit inside the service area.

CCB #218904 · Bonded & insured · Free site visit