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Where We Work in North Central Washington

Based in Chelan, working across Chelan, Manson, Entiat and Wenatchee and out to Cashmere, Leavenworth, the Methow, Omak, Brewster, Quincy and Waterville. Each page covers what the ground and the access are like there.

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Eleven areas

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Chelan County

Chelan, WA

Chelan is home. It’s also where a lot of the hardest ground in the valley is, and most of what makes a job here difficult shows up before the first bucket of dirt moves.

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Chelan County

Manson, WA

Manson sits on the benchland along the north shore, and a lot of the ground there has been orchard at some point. That changes what’s under the surface.

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Chelan County

Entiat, WA

Entiat runs from the Columbia back up a narrow river valley, and properties up that valley tend to be long on ground and short on easy access.

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Chelan County

Wenatchee, WA

Wenatchee mixes town lots with orchard and acreage on the edges, and the two need very different approaches on the ground.

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Chelan County

Cashmere, WA

Cashmere, Monitor and Dryden sit on the Wenatchee River bottom. Bedrock is a hundred feet down, so the digging problems come from what the river and the floods left on top of it.

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Chelan County

Leavenworth, WA

Leavenworth, Peshastin, Plain and Lake Wenatchee sit on some of the deepest loose ground in the state. The boulders mixed through it are what make jobs there hard.

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Okanogan County

Methow Valley, WA

The Methow is cobble and boulder country. Twisp, Winthrop, Carlton and Mazama all sit on it, and it’s the reason a trencher is usually the wrong tool up here.

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Okanogan County

Omak and Okanogan, WA

Omak and Okanogan sit on stacked glacial lake terraces. Which terrace you’re on decides what the job actually is.

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Okanogan County

Brewster, WA

Brewster, Bridgeport and Pateros sit on the Great Terrace of the Columbia. It’s layered, inconsistent ground that was stacked up against a wall of ice, and no two digs there go the same way.

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Grant County

Quincy, WA

Quincy sits on the floor of the Quincy Basin, on Ice Age flood gravel over basalt. Caliche and sand are the two things that catch people out here.

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Douglas County

Waterville, WA

The Waterville Plateau is easy ground to work on top of and hard ground to dig into, because of what sits about two feet down.

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Anywhere else

Outside these areas?

Moving equipment costs the same for a small job as a big one. Call and describe it. If the drive doesn’t make sense for a job that size, we’ll say so on the phone.

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