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Glocester, RI

One town. Three villages. Three different excavation jobs.

Glocester runs from the dense Chepachet historic core out through residential Harmony and into rural West Glocester at the Connecticut line. Each village has its own scope of work, its own soil, and its own set of constraints.

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01

Chepachet

Historic district · 1842 Dorr Rebellion site

The dense old village core along Route 44. National Register Historic District boundaries cover the heart of it — the Stagecoach Tavern, the original mill cluster, and the surrounding 19th-century houses. Excavation work in Chepachet means tight-lot foundations, sewer-lateral and water-line trenching where laterals exist, and careful work around stone walls and historic-district sightlines.

Typical job mix

  • ·Tight-lot foundations
  • ·Lateral & supply-line trenching
  • ·Historic-aware site prep

02

Harmony

Residential ridges · Putnam Pike east

The east-side residential half of Glocester, hugging the Smithfield line. Larger lots than Chepachet, mostly OWTS septic and drilled wells, glacial till with intermittent ledge. Foundation digs for new builds, leach-field replacements on aging systems, and drainage work on lots that fall toward the Ponaganset and Woonasquatucket headwaters are the regular calls.

Typical job mix

  • ·New-build foundations
  • ·OWTS replacement
  • ·Drainage on falling lots

03

West Glocester

Rural acreage · Putnam, CT line

The town’s western edge runs straight to the CT border — five minutes from our Sterling shop. This half is the most rural: bigger acreage, longer driveways, denser woods, and ledge that gets stubborn. Buck Hill Management Area and the George Washington MA cover thousands of acres up here. Job here is rural-RI excavation: clearing, OWTS, well lines, gravel access roads.

Typical job mix

  • ·Long rural driveways
  • ·Land clearing
  • ·Well-line + OWTS

What every Glocester job has in common.

Three things hold across all three villages. The job specifics change; these don’t.

Wastewater
No public sewer anywhere in town. Every property runs an OWTS — Onsite Wastewater Treatment System — designed by a RIDEM-licensed designer and installed under a RIDEM Office of Water Resources permit. New-construction OWTS, repairs, and replacements all flow through the same state-level approval before town inspections.
Water
Drilled private wells throughout. We coordinate well siting against the leach field and property lines, trench the supply line, and set the well pad. Drilling itself is a licensed driller’s scope.
Wetlands & clearing
RIDEM Freshwater Wetlands buffers reach further than most owners expect — Glocester is full of small streams feeding the Ponaganset, the Chepachet, and the headwaters of the Woonasquatucket. We map regulated features before clearing and coordinate any in-buffer work through RIDEM.

Tell us which village you’re in. We’ll match the crew and the permit path to it.

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