Excavation services for house sites, basements, utilities and lake lots around Sparta and Hancock County, Georgia.EXCAVATION IN SPARTA AND ACROSS HANCOCK.

Sparta is an old place to dig. The town was founded in 1795, and in the city a hundred-odd homes date to 1939 or earlier, so a new sewer lateral or addition footing can run into old footings and lines nobody ever mapped. Under the streets, the city's collection system relies on fourteen lift stations, which means force mains as well as gravity pipe. A locate ticket and careful hand digging near the marks keep that infrastructure intact.↗↗↗

West of town the county runs down to Lake Sinclair, and upriver, where the Oconee forms the county's western edge, Wallace Dam holds back Lake Oconee. FERC's relicensing notice places that dam project in Hancock, Putnam, Greene and Morgan counties. On those shoreline lots the excavation plan starts at the water and works inland: buffer, Georgia Power's setback, the house, then the septic area and its replacement area.↗↗

In between is farm and timber ground on Cataula and Cecil complexes, red clay on eroded slopes. It stands up well in a dry cut and turns slick and heavy when wet, so we stage spoil uphill and keep silt fence on the low side from the first day.↗