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Excavation In Urbana, IL

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

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Excavation & Site Work in Urbana

Urbana sits just east of Champaign — same job for us, easy haul up I-57. We work both halves of the C-U area regularly.

Brohez Trucking LLC handles excavation, rock driveways, demolition, land clearing, hauling, pond work, and culvert installs in Urbana and the surrounding rural areas of Champaign County. Same crew, same equipment, same straight pricing.

We work for homeowners, builders, landlords, and contractors throughout Urbana — including the U of I campus area — and the rural properties out toward St. Joseph and Sidney.

Call (217) 809-0779 for a free on-site estimate anywhere in Urbana or Champaign County.

Services Available

All of our services are available in Urbana.

⛏️ Excavation

Foundations, basements, drainage, septic, trenching, and site prep.

🪨 Rock Driveways

New gravel driveway installs, repairs, and grading throughout Urbana.

🏗️ Demolition

Barns, garages, foundations, and structures torn down clean.

🌲 Brush & Tree Clearing

Brush, trees, fence rows, and stumps cleared. Full scope on our land clearing page →

🚚 Dirt & Material Hauling

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

💧 Pond Cleanout

Farm pond and recreation pond cleanouts and restoration.

🚧 Culvert Repair

Driveway, field, and road culvert installs and replacements.

💧 French Drains

French drain installation in Urbana — perimeter, footing, and yard French drains to carry off groundwater and dry out wet ground.

💧 Drainage & Tile

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

🧬 Trenching

Trenching in Urbana for drainage tile lines, French drains, culvert lines, septic and water lines — cut on continuous fall to a real outlet, pipe bedded, backfilled and graded smooth.

📐 Site Preparation

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

🏠 Foundation Excavation

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

🌳 Stump Removal

Single yard stumps to whole fence rows pulled or ground in Urbana. 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.

🌊 Lake Construction

Recreational, fishing and farm lakes near Urbana — big-dam construction, spillway sizing and armoring, and the earthmoving a lake takes.

🌾 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.

Ponds around Urbana are mostly acreage and recreation ponds east toward the Salt Fork, plus detention basins that have to hold water and look like they belong. Flat ground means a built basin and a shaped outlet — what a pond costs to build explains how that changes the dirt. For a basin that won't hold level or a bank that keeps sliding in, see leaking pond & dam repair.

In Urbana, 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 Urbana Costs Depends On

There's no honest flat price on a teardown — what it runs in Urbana 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, mobile home, or barn teardown.

Demolition Contractor in Urbana, IL

Need a demolition contractor in Urbana, IL? Brohez Trucking tears down barns, garages, sheds, mobile homes, foundations, and outbuildings across Urbana, Champaign, and Champaign County — structure down, debris hauled off, and the site graded clean. We bring our own excavator, dozer, and dump trucks, help line up the asbestos notification and utility disconnects, and hand you one straight, itemized number after a free on-site walk.

From a single garage teardown in Urbana to a full farmstead clearing in the county, we scope it honestly and quote it free. See our full demolition services or call (217) 809-0779.

Demolition Service Urbana IL — What We Take Down

The demolition service Urbana IL property owners call us for splits about evenly between town lots and county ground. In town it's detached garages and sheds off narrow alleys, vacant and fire-damaged houses on infill lots, old patios and driveway aprons, and rental-property cleanouts around campus. Out in the county it's barn demolition, machine sheds, corn cribs, grain bin removal including the ring foundation, and mobile home removal on rural acreage.

An in-town Urbana teardown is as much a logistics job as a demolition job — the lot is narrow, the neighbor's siding is fifteen feet away, and the alley is often the only way in. We plan the machine approach and the truck turnaround before anything comes down, confirm every utility is disconnected and verified dead, protect what's staying, and haul debris out on our own tandems as we go so a pile never sits on the street. Basements and crawl spaces get backfilled and compacted in lifts, not pushed full of loose dirt, which matters if anything is going back on the footprint. Concrete and foundation removal is part of the same trip when you want it.

Local Crew, Real Equipment

Working Around Urbana

Urbana sits just east of Champaign, on the U of I side of the Champaign-Urbana metro — about 38,000 people. We come up I-57 north or US-45 from Mattoon, depending on where in the C-U area we're headed. The trip's about 50 miles, an hour and change with equipment in tow.

Sub-areas we cover too: St. Joseph, Sidney, Philo, Tolono, Mahomet, Savoy, plus the rural pieces of Champaign County out toward Sangamon River. If you're inside Champaign County or right on the edge, you're inside our radius.

Common Urbana jobs: U of I area landlords and property managers for excavation, demo, and hauling on rental properties; pole barn pads and rural shop foundations out toward Mahomet, St. Joseph, and Sidney; drainage tile work in the heavy black-prairie soil that holds water in spring; and rock driveways on the rural acreages east and south of Urbana. Champaign County's prairie ground is some of the richest farmland in Illinois — but it's flat, so drainage planning matters on every dig.

No travel surcharge. Urbana jobs price the same as Mattoon jobs. The drive is part of our normal service area, not a premium add-on.

Urbana, IL FAQs

What sub-areas around Urbana do you cover?

Urbana, Champaign, Savoy, St. Joseph, Sidney, Philo, Tolono, Mahomet, and the rural parts of Champaign County in between. If you're inside the county or right on the edge, call and we'll come look.

How do you get to Urbana from Mattoon?

I-57 north for most jobs, or US-45 if we're staying east of the interstate. About 50 miles, just over an hour with equipment.

Do you work near U of I campus?

Yes — for property owners, landlords, and contractors in the campus area. Excavation, demolition, hauling, and grading on rental properties and small commercial.

Do you serve Urbana regularly?

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

Is there a travel charge?

No. Mobilization is built into the estimate. One straight number.

Are you insured?

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

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Where Urbana Sits

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

Got A Job In 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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