Excavation Contractors in North Whitehall Township, PA

Excavation contractors in North Whitehall Township spend more time on open ground than in the city. The township covers 28.1 square miles about 9.4 miles northwest of Allentown and had 15,655 residents in 2020, roughly 543 per square mile. That leaves room for pole barns, long gravel driveways, pastures and new homes on acreage, and the earthwork that goes with them.

Thirteen villages

Ballietsville, Coffeetown, Ironton, Kernsville, Laurys Station, Mechanicsville, Meyersville, Neffs, Orefield, Ormrod, Ruchsville, Scheidy and Schnecksville are all at least partly in the township. Laurys Station and Ironton sit near the river; Schnecksville, home to Lehigh Carbon Community College, has the busiest crossroads.

Clearing and driveways

A home site on wooded or overgrown land starts with clearing the house footprint, septic area and driveway. Long driveways need a proper stone base and drainage ditches or culverts so water does not run down the middle. HomeGuide lists land clearing at $1,200 to $8,000 per acre depending on how thick the growth is.

Roads

The township maintains 116.71 of its 159.25 miles of public roads; PennDOT has 37.84 and the Turnpike Commission 4.70 where I-476 crosses the south and west. Routes 309, 873, 329 and 145 are state roads, so a driveway onto one needs a PennDOT highway occupancy permit. Township roads go through the township.

Planning a North Whitehall project

Rural lots raise questions city jobs do not. Where will the septic system go, and does the clearing need to avoid it? How long is the driveway, and where does water cross it? Is there room for trucks to turn around? We walk the whole route and plan culverts and ditches before stone goes down.

The township's 2010 count was 6,000 housing units on more than 28 square miles, about 207.6 per square mile. Many of those homes are on private wells and septic, so trenching work often means septic lines and drain fields rather than municipal laterals. We coordinate with the septic designer and installer on depths and locations.

Ironton's average temperatures run from 28.4 degrees in January to 73.3 in July. Long gravel driveways get the worst of freeze-thaw; a proper base and drainage prevent potholes and washouts.

Common North Whitehall jobs

• Lot and driveway clearing
• Pole barn and garage pads
• Septic and utility trenches
• Pond and drainage work

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