Driveways and Access Roads
Long gravel driveways, farm and nursery access roads, equipment yards and construction entrances for builders and landowners. We grade the road and set the culverts, then build up the base rock to carry trucks.
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Road construction for a new subdivision starts well below the asphalt. Turner Excavation is an excavation contractor in Dallas, OR, and we build streets and private roads from the subgrade up. We dig out the street and lay the pipe that runs under it. Then we place and compact the base rock that carries the pavement.
The concrete work and the asphalt finish the street. Our paving and concrete subcontractors place them, and we manage their work as part of the job. Our street work usually comes as part of subdivision development for builders and developers. We also build private roads for commercial sites and for landowners with larger properties.
Tell us about the project and where the site is. We look at the job and put a free estimate in writing.
A subdivision street goes in from the bottom up, pipe first. Before any digging, we call Oregon 811 for utility locates. Then we excavate down to the subgrade and lay the underground utilities: sewer and water mains, storm pipe and conduit. Every trench is backfilled and compacted before the street goes on top.
Next comes the subgrade. We shape it to grade and check it for soft spots. Soft clay comes out and gets replaced with rock. Our dump trucks then haul in the base rock, and it goes down in compacted lifts.
The concrete crew we bring in pours the curbs and sidewalks. Our paving subcontractor lays the asphalt over the compacted rock. The finished street drains to the catch basins set during the storm work.
The NRCS soil survey rates nearly all of Polk County's soils as limited for local roads and streets. The Dayton soils on the flat valley terraces are rated very limited. The survey lists low strength, shrink and swell, ponding and a high water table. Most of the red Jory clay in the foothills carries the same rating.
Wet clay makes weak ground under a street. Rain softens it, and loaded trucks rut it. Dallas averages about 48 inches of rain a year, and more than 90 percent falls from October through May. July and August average under half an inch each, so summer is the season for subgrade work.
Drainage keeps the subgrade firm. We build the storm drainage under the street, from the catch basins to the outfall. On soft ground, the engineer may also call for fabric or extra rock under the base.
A finished street takes dirt work, pipe, rock, concrete and asphalt. Our excavators, dozer, water truck and dump trucks handle the work up through the base rock. Our paving and concrete subcontractors place the rest, and we manage them under our contract. You have one company to call about the whole street.
Your civil engineer designs the street, and the city or county reviews the plans. In Dallas, public streets are built to the Oregon Standard Specifications for Construction. The city adds its own specifications and standard drawings. We build to the approved plans and work with the city or county inspectors as each layer goes in.
Call or text for a written quote. We work about 70 miles around Dallas across the Willamette Valley.
(503) 507-2919From the first call or text to the finished work, here is how it goes.
Call or text (503) 507-2919 and tell us about the land and the project. Plans or a site map help if you have them.
We come out to look at the ground and where the water goes. If there are plans, we go through the quantities with you.
The free estimate comes to you in writing, with the scope of work spelled out. Once you say yes, we set the start date together.
We call Oregon 811 for utility locates before any digging. Then the work goes in the order the job needs, from clearing through base rock.
We work with the city or county inspectors as the utilities go in. We leave the site graded and ready for the builders or the next trade.
Common questions about road construction around Dallas and the rest of the Willamette Valley. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
Long gravel driveways, farm and nursery access roads, equipment yards and construction entrances for builders and landowners. We grade the road and set the culverts, then build up the base rock to carry trucks.
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We handle foundation excavation and build compacted building pads for homes on acreage, shops, barns and commercial buildings. Footings are cut to the engineer's plan, and every pad is graded to drain.
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Directional drilling carries water services and power and communications conduit under roads, paved drives, parking lots and creeks. The pipe pulls back through the bore, and the surface above it stays in place.
Learn MoreWe put in the water, sewer, storm and dry utilities, then build the street over them. Our paving and concrete subcontractors finish the curbs and asphalt under our management.
Our excavators, dozer, water truck and dump trucks do the heavy work. Our crew and foreman run the site from the first cut to final grade.
We look at the plans and the ground before we price the work. Then the free estimate comes to you in writing, with the scope spelled out.
Our shop and yard are in Dallas, in Polk County. We take on projects about 70 miles out, across the Willamette Valley and over the Coast Range to Newport.
Tell us where the land is and what the project needs, and send the plans if you have them. Call or text (503) 507-2919 or use the form, and we will set a time to look at the job.
Tell us about the project and where the site is. We look at the job and put a free estimate in writing.
