Every building needs water, sewer or septic, power, and often gas and internet. Each of those has to travel from a main, a pole, or a tank to the right spot on your building, and each one needs a trench. Planned separately, those trenches get dug at different times by different people, and your lot ends up looking like a patchwork.
Utility prep in Rangely pulls all of that together. We work with your plumber, electrician, septic installer, and utility providers to map every route, then dig the trenches and holes they need in a logical order. Installers lay their lines and tanks. We keep the dig safe while they work and backfill in compacted lifts once everything is inspected. Basin doesn’t install the pipe, wire, or tank. We handle the digging and the dirt.
We know Rangely lots, from town parcels on sewer to acreage that needs septic, and plan the digging to match.
Our excavators and trenchers handle tank holes, long service runs, and tight spaces near foundations without slowing the schedule.
We're clear about what we do and don't do, so you always know who's responsible for each piece of the job.
Open trenches stay marked, spoils stay organized, and we leave the surface smooth for the next crew to grade.
We want this part to be clear from the start. Basin is the excavation contractor on a utility prep job. Your licensed plumber, electrician, gas provider, and septic installer put in the pipe, wire, conduit, and tanks, and they make the connections. Our job is to dig what they need, where they need it, at the depth and width they ask for, and then backfill once their work is inspected.
That arrangement keeps the right people responsible for each part. It also means you only have one crew handling the dirt side of every service, which makes scheduling a lot simpler on a busy build.
Before anyone digs, we sit down with your plans and your installers to figure out where every line will run. Water and sewer usually come from the street or a well and tank. Power might come from a pole or a pedestal. Gas has its own route to the meter. Mapping them together helps us avoid crossing lines where we don’t need to and spot shared trenches where codes and installers allow them.
We also request Colorado 811 marks at least two full business days ahead, not counting the day of the call. Existing lines get marked, and we know what we’re working around before the first bucket goes in. When the house or shop hole hasn’t been dug yet, our general excavation work can be scheduled right alongside the service routes, which saves a second mobilization out to Rangely and keeps the lot from being torn up twice.
Some properties on the edges of Rangely and out on acreage don’t have access to town sewer. For those, the septic installer designs and installs the system, and we dig for it. That usually means the tank hole, the trench or bed for the drain field, and the line between them.
We dig to the installer’s layout and depth, keep the soil in the field area from getting packed down by equipment, and come back to backfill once the system is set and inspected. The installer is responsible for the design, the tank, and the pipe.
A little planning upfront keeps the job moving once the machines show up. Before we start, it helps to have these answers:
Utility trenches work best when they’re planned alongside the rest of the dirt work. If the foundation dig and the utility trenches happen close together, we can keep the equipment on site and avoid tearing up finished ground later. Sewer lines in particular need to leave the building at the right height and keep their fall all the way to the main or tank, so we like to know where the stub outs will be before the walls are poured.
Driveways are the other big one. Lines that need to cross under a future driveway should go in before the base does. Running them first, then building the driveway prep on top, saves cutting into a brand new base a year down the road.
We don’t cover anything until the inspector or installer gives the go ahead. Once they do, we place bedding where it’s called for, backfill in thin lifts, and compact each one so the trench line doesn’t sink after the first round of freeze and thaw.
For one-off runs, like a new water line to an existing shop, our trenching service covers the dig without the full utility prep plan. Either way, call (801) 669-0512 and we’ll talk through your project and set up a time to walk the property.
We visit your Rangely property, review plans, and meet or call your installers to map every service route.
You receive a written quote covering each trench, septic excavation, and backfill, with the installer split spelled out.
After 811 marks are placed, we dig trenches and holes to installer specs and keep them safe while lines go in.
Once inspections pass, we backfill in compacted lifts and walk the site with you to confirm everything is covered.
