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Hillside Excavation, Walls, and Drainage in Campbell County
Campbell County drops 465 feet from its uplands to the Ohio River, and it does that inside a county only about twelve miles across at its widest. Newport, Bellevue, and Dayton sit on a thin shelf of bottomland, and the ground climbs hard behind them to the limestone bluff Fort Thomas is built on. This isn't the broad rolling ridgetop ground we work in Boone and Kenton counties. In Campbell County, almost everything happens on a slope.
The soil here has a name, and this county owns it. The USDA's reference site for the Eden series, the clay that defines Northern Kentucky hillsides, sits in the south end of Campbell County near Grants Lick. Eden means roughly two feet of heavy clay over soft shale, water that runs off instead of soaking in, and rock in the bucket before you're knee deep. We've worked that ground for over 35 years, and we bring the excavators, the dozers, and our own 14 dump trucks, because a Campbell County hillside lot rarely has room to stockpile what comes out of it.
Campbell County is really two counties, and it has two county seats to prove it, Newport on the river and Alexandria in the south. More than one house in four here was built before 1940, the oldest housing stock of any county we serve, and in Bellevue it's closer to two out of three. That end of the county is leaning walls, crumbling block foundations, garages and outbuildings that need to come down, and downspouts nobody ever ran anywhere. South of the ridge the story flips. Alexandria's median house dates to 1994 and better than a quarter of its homes have gone up since 2010, so the work turns into pads, driveways, finish grade, and drainage on fresh ground. One contractor covers both ends, from the demolition and haul-off to the wall, the drain, and the seed.
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Campbell County questions
Do you work in Newport, Fort Thomas, and Alexandria?
Yes, and everywhere between them. Campbell County is the far end of our service area, roughly 26 to 34 road miles from our Crittenden shop, about 45 minutes by way of I-75 north and I-275 east. We run it regularly, and we haul with our own fleet, so the stone and fill show up when the crew does instead of a week later.
Why does my Campbell County hillside hold water instead of draining?
Eden clay sheds water, it doesn't take it in, and there's shale bedrock 20 to 40 inches down, so the little that soaks in has nowhere to go. Add hillside springs where one rock layer meets the next, plus older houses whose roof water still dumps at the foundation, and you get soft ground and wet basements. The fix is grading water away from the house, carrying roof and driveway runoff to daylight, and setting a drain where the slope needs one.
Do I need a permit before disturbing ground in Campbell County?
Often, yes. Sanitation District No. 1 handles land disturbance permitting across Boone, Campbell, and Kenton counties, and the trigger is one acre in most of the county but only 10,000 square feet in the older combined sewer areas like Newport when you're adding hard surface. That's worth knowing before a machine shows up, and we sequence the work and the erosion control around it.
Can you tear down an old garage or outbuilding in Bellevue or Dayton?
We can, and the haul-off is part of it because the trucks are ours. Tight lots and narrow alleys are normal in those neighborhoods, so we bring machines sized for the space, take the structure down, pull the old slab or block foundation, and leave the ground graded so water runs away from what's still standing.
Towns we serve in Campbell County
Working on something in Campbell?
We're minutes up the interstate. Tell us what the ground needs and we'll come look at it.