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Serving Champaign & Urbana, Illinois

Excavation In Champaign, IL

50 miles north of Mattoon. Full excavation, demolition, and site-work services across Champaign, Urbana, and Champaign County.

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Excavation & Site Work in Champaign-Urbana

Champaign and Urbana are the busiest market in our service area outside of the Mattoon-Charleston corridor. Between the rural farmland surrounding Champaign County and the residential and commercial properties in town, we run jobs up here on a regular basis.

Brohez Trucking LLC is based in Mattoon, IL — about 50 miles south of Champaign, an easy 45-minute haul up Route 45 or I-57. For a job worth doing right, that's not far.

We work for homeowners, builders, farmers, contractors, and property managers across Champaign and Urbana. Rock driveway installs on rural properties. Foundation excavation for new builds. Demolition for redevelopment. Pond cleanouts on family farms. Culvert replacements after a washout.

Same equipment, same operators, same fair pricing. Call (217) 809-0779 for a free on-site estimate anywhere in Champaign County.

Services Available

All of our services are available in Champaign and Urbana.

⛏️ Excavation

Foundations, basements, drainage, septic, trenching, and site prep across Champaign County.

🪨 Rock Driveways

New crushed limestone driveway installs and repairs throughout Champaign and Urbana.

🏗️ Demolition

Barns, garages, foundations, and structures torn down clean in Champaign and surrounding areas.

🌲 Land Clearing

Brush, trees, fence rows, and stumps cleared from properties across Champaign County.

🚚 Dirt & Material Hauling

Fill dirt, topsoil, gravel, and rock delivered to Champaign. Spoils and debris hauled off.

💧 Pond Cleanout

Farm pond and recreation pond cleanouts, restoration, and leak repair.

🚧 Culvert Repair

Driveway, field, and road culvert installs and replacements in Champaign County.

💧 Drainage & Tile

Drainage tile, French drains, foundation drains, and yard drainage in Champaign and surrounding areas. Soggy yards, standing water, and broken field tile fixed.

📐 Site Preparation

Pole barn pads, garage and shed pads, residential foundations, and commercial slab prep in Champaign. Stripped, cut, compacted, ready for the slab crew.

🏠 Foundation Excavation

Footing digs, basement excavation, crawl spaces, and pole barn footings across Champaign. Square corners, accurate grade, drainage tied in.

🌳 Stump Removal

Single yard stumps to whole fence rows pulled or ground in Champaign. Holes backfilled, graded, ready for grass or fence.

⛰️ Grading

Yard, driveway, lot, and finish grading — crowned, sloped, and drained right.

💧 Pond Construction

New ponds built from scratch — layout, basin, dam, spillway, and seeding.

🌾 Grassed Waterways

NRCS-spec waterways and WASCOBs — cut, shaped, and seeded to plan.

🏗️ Pole Barn Pads

Stripped, cut, compacted, and rocked — ready for the post crew.

In Champaign, that demolition includes barn demolition, garage & shed teardown, mobile home removal, and concrete & foundation removal — torn down, hauled off, and the site graded clean. See all demolition services.

What a Teardown in Champaign Costs Depends On

There's no honest flat price on a teardown — what it runs in Champaign comes down to size and construction, whether the foundation or slab comes out, asbestos on the older buildings, how tight the access is, and how far the debris has to haul. We read all of that at a free on-site walk and hand you a straight number.

See what moves the price on a house, garage, or mobile home teardown.

Real Equipment, Straight Pricing

Champaign has plenty of excavation contractors. What sets us apart is being small enough to actually answer the phone and big enough to bring real equipment.

What you get:

Working Around Champaign-Urbana

Champaign-Urbana is the biggest market in our radius — the twin cities, the U of I campus, plus the rural and ag belt that wraps around them. We come up I-57 from Mattoon for most jobs, about 50 miles. Champaign County is heavy on farmland, drainage tile, and rural acreages, with denser residential and light-commercial work concentrated in Champaign, Urbana, Savoy, and Mahomet.

Sub-areas we cover: Champaign, Urbana (we have a dedicated Urbana page), Savoy, Mahomet, Tolono, Sidney, Bondville, Philo, St. Joseph, Thomasboro, Rantoul, and the surrounding county. If you're in Champaign County and need excavation, we can probably get there.

Common Champaign-area jobs: drainage tile and pattern tile on the farm ground (Champaign County's flat, productive, and tile-heavy), foundations and pole barn pads in Mahomet and Savoy, rural rock driveways out toward Bondville and St. Joseph, residential demolition inside Champaign and Urbana, and pond construction or restoration on the rural acreages east and south of town.

U of I and contractor sub-work: we've sub-hauled for general contractors on Champaign jobs and we run dump trucks if you need a tandem load to disappear or arrive. Call and ask.

Champaign, IL FAQs

What sub-areas around Champaign do you serve?

All of Champaign County and the bordering pieces. Specifically: Champaign, Urbana, Savoy, Mahomet, Tolono, Sidney, Bondville, Philo, St. Joseph, Thomasboro, and Rantoul. We also run regularly into the rural townships in between.

How do you get from Mattoon to Champaign?

I-57 north for most jobs — about 50 miles, an hour or so with equipment. Faster than Decatur via Route 121 if you measure by interstate miles vs. two-lane.

Do you really come up to Champaign from Mattoon?

Yes — regularly. Champaign is 50 miles from our shop, well within our normal 60-mile service radius.

Is there a travel charge?

No surprise travel fees. Mobilization is built into the estimate. One straight number.

Do you serve all of Champaign County?

Yes — Champaign, Urbana, Savoy, Mahomet, Tolono, Sidney, Philo, St. Joseph, and the rural areas in between.

Can you help with a job in Urbana specifically?

Yes — Urbana is right next door to Champaign on our route. Same service, same pricing.

What's the most common Champaign job?

Rock driveway work and excavation are the volume. Pond cleanouts and culvert work are right behind.

Are you insured?

Yes — full liability and equipment coverage. Certificate of Insurance available on request.

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"Would 100% use them again for rock or gravel needs. Levi was able to help with several gravel loads across different days and did a great job on the last day to help spread and level the last loads of gravel. He was also upfront about the price — no hidden or additional charges."

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Where Champaign Sits

Mattoon, IL is roughly the center of our 60-mile service radius. We work Champaign and the surrounding county regularly.

Got A Job In Champaign-Urbana?

Call us and we'll come look. No pressure, no obligation — just a straight number.

When you call, you talk to Levi — the man running the machine, not a salesman.

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