Excavation Contractors in Cincinnati, OH

Excavation contractors in Cincinnati work in a city built on hills, bluffs and low ridges above the Ohio River, at the meeting of the Ohio and Licking rivers. The traditional seven hills, Mount Adams, Walnut Hills, Mount Auburn, Vine Street Hill, College Hill, Fairmount and Mount Harrison (now Price Hill), ring the basin around downtown. The 2020 census counted 309,317 residents and 161,095 housing units on about 78 square miles of land, divided into 52 neighborhoods.

Old buildings, old pipes

Over-the-Rhine, one of the largest intact urban historic districts in the country, is lined with brick buildings put up by German immigrants between 1865 and the 1880s, and parts of the urban core have stood for close to 200 years. Behind those facades are old laterals, stone foundations and tight lots where most digging is done with compact machines or by hand.

Hillsides with a history

USGS researchers documented Cincinnati slides in shale-derived colluvium, including a 1973 Columbia Parkway slide that moved about 20 meters, and nearly 30 old foundations along Hillside Avenue marking homes apparently lost to sliding. On hillside lots, we keep cuts small, keep fill off the slope and pipe water to the bottom.

River flats and floods

At the bottom of the hills, the river sets the rules. Flood stage at the Roebling Bridge has been 52 feet since 1922, and the record crest was nearly 80 feet in January 1937. Properties in low areas may face floodplain limits on fill and grading.

Common city jobs

• Slope regrading and slump repair
• Downspout tightlines and curtain drains
• Sewer lateral trenches
• Retaining wall replacement on terraced lots
• Site prep for infill homes

Call (513) 960-3309 or

Get a Free Estimate

.