Excavation Contractors in Upper Saucon Township, PA

Excavation contractors in Upper Saucon Township get more room to work than in the boroughs, along with more varied ground. The township covers 24.5 square miles around Coopersburg, and its elevation runs from 340 feet in Spring Valley to 1,042 feet at Bauer Rock on South Mountain. Population grew from 11,939 in 2000 to 16,973 in 2020, and that growth brings new home sites, long driveways, clearing and septic or utility trenches.

Two watersheds

Most of the township drains through Saucon Creek to the Lehigh River and the Delaware. A small area in the far south, southwest of Locust Valley, drains through Unami Creek toward Perkiomen Creek and the Schuylkill. Where your lot drains matters for stormwater plans and for where a drain can discharge.

Slopes and clearing

The South Mountain side has wooded slopes where clearing for a house or driveway needs erosion controls from the first day. Pennsylvania requires erosion and sediment controls on earth disturbance, and larger areas need a plan reviewed by the Lehigh County Conservation District. We clear within the limits and stabilize as we go.

Campus and corporate neighbors

Olympus Corporation opened its U.S. headquarters here in 2006, and DeSales University, Penn State Lehigh Valley and a Strayer campus are in the township. The 70-acre Upper Saucon Township Community Park was dedicated in 1996. Nearby residential streets are where we do most work.

Planning an Upper Saucon project

The township's average temperatures in Center Valley run from 29.5 degrees in January to 74.3 in July. Larger lots often mean longer runs for water and sewer lines, longer driveways and more grading. For new homes on wooded parcels, the order of work matters: clearing, erosion controls, rough grading, foundation dig, utility trenches, backfill and finish grading. We can handle the whole sequence so one crew is responsible for the site.

Upper Saucon was established in 1743 within Bucks County, moved into Northampton County in 1752 and became part of Lehigh County in 1812. Older farmhouses scattered through the township sometimes sit on stone foundations and have old wells or cisterns nearby. We ask about them before digging so nothing is broken into by surprise.

Roads

PennDOT maintains 50.61 of the township's 131.43 miles of public roads, including PA 309, PA 145 and PA 378. A driveway onto any of those needs a PennDOT highway occupancy permit; township roads go through the township. Call (610) 756-2728 or

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