Soil remediation is the digging side of an environmental cleanup. An old buried heating oil tank rusts through, a fill line cracks, or a delivery runs over. The oil soaks into the ground under the yard or the basement floor. Somebody has to take that soil out, and that is our part of the job.
We dig out the contaminated soil, load it for removal to a permitted facility, and backfill with clean fill. We run our own excavators and equipment out of Milford. It is the same excavation work we do every week, cut to your consultant's limits. Call or text (973) 552-8580 for a free estimate.
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Somebody smells oil in the basement, or a tank comes out and the ground under it is black. Sometimes it shows up at a sale, when the buyer's inspector finds an old buried tank. Oil moves with the soil and the water, so the first question is how far it went.
Your consultant answers that with probes, field readings and lab samples. We open the hole where they mark it and pull the stained soil out. They keep checking the sidewalls and the bottom as the dig goes deeper. It stops when their results say the ground is clean.
Soil headed off site gets loaded straight into trucks when the plan allows. If results are still pending, it sits on plastic sheeting and stays covered. New York guidance, for one, treats excavated petroleum soil as industrial waste with hauling and disposal rules.
Every cleanup runs under a state program, and the rules change across the river. Your consultant knows which one applies and handles the reports. Sawkill Environmental is the excavation contractor on the job, licensed and insured, PA HIC #PA225040. The testing and the state sign off stay with them.
In Pennsylvania, DEP asks that heating oil releases be reported to the regional DEP office. Storage tank cleanups are then carried out under the state's Act 2 standards. Pennsylvania also runs a reimbursement program for eligible underground heating oil tank cleanup costs. Ask your consultant whether your release qualifies.
New Jersey covers home heating oil tanks under the unregulated heating oil tank program at NJDEP. A discharge is called in to the state hotline, and the owner hires a licensed site remediation professional. New York takes petroleum spill reports at the DEC spill hotline, 1-800-457-7362. We cross the river from Milford for this work, the same as we do across the towns we cover.
Before anything opens up, the buried utilities get marked. Pennsylvania uses PA One Call (811). New Jersey uses New Jersey One Call (811), and New York uses Dig Safely New York (811). Cleanups often sit tight against a house, so the hole is cut to keep the foundation supported.
Pike County ground makes the digging its own problem. Glacial till, boulders and shallow sandstone ledge sit under a lot of these lots. Rock gets broken out with a hammer when the contaminated soil runs down into it. Spring snowmelt raises the water table, and water in an open hole changes how the dig is staged.
Once your consultant clears the hole, clean fill goes back in lifts and gets compacted. Under anything that will carry weight, that compaction matters. Then topsoil, final grade and seed go over the top. If the yard needs more than a patch, we handle the regrading and site work too.
Free, no-obligation estimates across the Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York tri-state area.
(973) 552-8580From the first call or text to the final grading, here is how it goes.
Call or text (973) 552-8580 and tell us about the property. New builds, empty lots and failing systems all start here.
We come out and look at the property, the soil and where a system can fit. Estimates are free.
We dig the soil test pits. The township sewage enforcement officer runs the probes and the percolation tests, and approves the design. In New Jersey and New York, the county health department issues the permit.
Once the permit is issued, we set the tank and run the lines to the distribution box. Then we build the absorption area to the approved design. Conventional in-ground beds and elevated sand mounds are both common on lots around here.
The system gets inspected before anything is covered. In Pennsylvania the township sewage enforcement officer does that inspection. Then we backfill, grade the ground back out and clean up the site.
Common questions about soil remediation across the Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York tri-state area. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
We handle general excavation for homes and commercial sites around Milford: foundation and basement digs, footings, trenches and rock ledge. We run our own excavators and equipment, so the dig, the backfill and the compaction stay with one company.
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Site prep and grading for new homes, barns and commercial buildings around Milford. We build pads, cut and fill, place stone base and put in private roads and access lanes.
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We repair and replace sewer laterals by open trench, from the building wall out to the sewer main. Broken, collapsed, root damaged and bellied lines come out, and new pipe goes in on a graded bed.
Learn MoreSawkill Environmental is licensed and insured, with Pennsylvania Home Improvement Contractor registration PA HIC #PA225040. That number is public, and you can look it up before you hire anyone.
We run our own excavators and equipment. That keeps the test pits, the install and the final grading on one schedule.
We work from Milford out about 25 miles. That covers Pike and Wayne counties in Pennsylvania, Sussex in New Jersey, and Orange and Sullivan in New York.
Estimates are free. We come out, look at the property and tell you what the job needs. Call or text (973) 552-8580.
Tell us about the property and what you need done, and we will come back with a free estimate. You can also call or text (973) 552-8580.
Tell us about the job. We will get right back to you.
