Excavation Contractors in Maryville, TN

Excavation contractors in Maryville work in the seat of Blount County, settled in 1785 around John Craig's fort and incorporated in 1795. The city counted 31,907 residents and 12,962 housing units in 2020, and it has grown steadily, by about 20 percent in the 1990s, 19 percent in the 2000s and 16 percent in the 2010s. Chilhowee Mountain, the outermost ridge of the western Smokies, rises to the south.

Little River and Ellejoy Creek

The Little River runs through the area, joined by Ellejoy Creek, on its way from the Smokies to the Tennessee River. Properties near those streams often have soft bottomland soils and floodplain limits. We check both before grading or filling.

Foothills slopes

South of town the ground rises toward Chilhowee Mountain, and lots there tend to be steeper and rockier. Driveways need ditches and culverts to survive heavy rain, and building pads need careful cut and fill. On steep ground we leave root mats on slopes that will not be built on and put erosion controls in place before rain.

Downtown and older homes

Maryville's downtown went through a $10 million urban renewal in the 1970s, much of it reversed in the 2000s. Around downtown, older homes have the usual issues: settled grading, old laterals and wet crawlspaces. The city also has one of only 24 Alcoa Care-free Homes built in the U.S. in 1957 and 1958, a reminder of how closely the city's history is tied to its neighbor.

Rock and chert on the ridges

Foothills ground around Maryville often carries chert and rock fragments. USDA describes Fullerton soils, common on the region's ridges, as having 10 to 45 percent chert gravel and cobbles in individual layers. Chert is hard on pipe and tough to compact, so we bed lines in sand or fine stone and screen what goes back in a trench.

Heavy rain

The area gets around 52 inches of precipitation in a normal year. On a foothills lot that much water needs a planned path. We build swales and ditches before the finish grade so the next storm does not carve a gully through new work.

Common Maryville jobs

• Gravel driveways and culverts on foothills lots
• House pads and crawlspace digs for new homes
• Water and electrical trenches to shops and barns
• French drains for wet crawlspaces
• Brush clearing on overgrown parcels

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