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Embarras River country. Excavation, rock driveways, drainage, and pond work in Greenup and Cumberland County.
📞 Call (217) 809-0779 Free EstimateGreenup is 22 miles southeast of Mattoon on the Embarras River — Cumberland County farming country with the historic Cumberland Road running through. Easy reach from our Mattoon shop.
Brohez Trucking LLC handles the full range of dirt and site work in Greenup — rock driveways for farms and rural homes, foundation excavation, pond and creek work, culvert installs, and demolition. If it involves moving earth, we've done it in Cumberland County.
Embarras River bottoms — flood-prone fields, drainage tile failures, and creek crossings — show up regularly on jobs in this area. Our equipment handles soft ground and tight rural sites.
Call (217) 809-0779 for a free estimate anywhere in Greenup, Jewett, Hidalgo, Janesville, or rural Cumberland County.
Foundations, basements, drainage, trenching, and site prep across Cumberland County.
Crushed limestone driveways for rural and residential properties around Greenup.
Barns, garages, foundations, and structures torn down clean.
Brush, trees, fence rows, and stumps cleared from Greenup-area properties. Full scope on our land clearing page →
Fill dirt, topsoil, gravel, and rock delivered. Spoils hauled off.
Farm pond and recreation pond cleanouts across Cumberland County.
Driveway, field, and road culvert installs and replacements.
French drain installation in Greenup — perimeter, footing, and yard French drains to carry off groundwater and dry out wet ground.
Drainage tile, French drains, foundation drains, and yard drainage in Greenup and surrounding areas. Soggy yards, standing water, and broken field tile fixed.
Trenching in Greenup for drainage tile lines, French drains, culvert lines, and water lines — cut on continuous fall to a real outlet, pipe bedded, backfilled and graded smooth.
Pole barn pads, garage and shed pads, residential foundations, and commercial slab prep in Greenup. Stripped, cut, compacted, ready for the slab crew.
Footing digs, basement excavation, crawl spaces, and pole barn footings across Greenup. Square corners, accurate grade, drainage tied in.
Single yard stumps to whole fence rows pulled or ground in Greenup. Holes backfilled, graded, ready for grass or fence.
Yard, driveway, lot, and finish grading — crowned, sloped, and drained right.
New ponds built from scratch — layout, basin, dam, spillway, and seeding.
Earthen pond and lake dams built across a draw near Greenup — keyed core trench, clay placed in compacted lifts, outlet and emergency spillway set to elevation.
Recreational, fishing and farm lakes near Greenup — big-dam construction, spillway sizing and armoring, and the earthmoving a lake takes.
NRCS-spec waterways and WASCOBs — cut, shaped, and seeded to plan.
Cat D6N dozer work in Greenup — building pads pushed to grade, push-and-pile clearing, pond banks and berms shaped, and finish grading across open ground.
Stripped, cut, compacted, and rocked — ready for the post crew.
Greenup sits in the Embarras bottoms with timber and real relief behind it, which is good pond country — a draw to dam, clay to build with, and a watershed that fills it. What that costs comes down to dam height, depth, and haul; what goes into the cost of a pond lays it out. Older Cumberland County dams that seep through the fill are a leaking dam repair, not a lost pond.
In Greenup, that demolition includes barn demolition, grain bin removal, and concrete & foundation removal — torn down, hauled off, and the site graded clean. See all demolition services. Out on the farmsteads and commercial lots around Greenup that also means silo removal, pole barn demolition, underground tank removal, inground pool removal & pool fill-in, and commercial demolition — same crew, same trucks, same free on-site walk.
There's no honest flat price on a teardown — what it runs in Greenup 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.
Brohez Trucking is the demolition contractor for Greenup, IL and Cumberland County. We tear down barns, sheds, garages, mobile homes, and houses through Greenup and the Embarras River bottom ground, hauling the debris out and leaving the site graded. River-bottom and wooded properties can be soft and tight — we plan access on tracks and stage the trucks where they won't sink.
Old timber barns along the Cumberland Road corridor are common work. See barn demolition, house demolition, or the full demolition services list. Free on-site estimate — (217) 809-0779.
The Embarras bottoms hold water down here even in a dry year, and that changes what tile has to do. A line in the bottoms isn't fighting a wet spring, it's fighting a river stage that backs up its outlet — so an outlet that submerges regularly silts shut regardless of how good the pipe is.
So the first thing we look at around Greenup is where the line lets out and what the water is doing there, not the middle of the field. Buried outlets, silted runs, and blowholes above a crushed section are the pattern. South of US-40 the ground rolls and the problems move to grade. Either way we work from the outlet up, open the ground at the failure, and repair it.
Repair and targeted lines only — we're not a pattern-tile crew. See drain tile repair, trenching in Greenup, or drainage. Free estimate — (217) 809-0779.
Greenup sits in southeast Cumberland County, on the Embarras River and along the historic National Road (US-40) — about 1,500 people. Lincoln Heritage country, with the original 1830s log cabin a few miles outside town. We run US-40 east or IL-130 south from Mattoon — about 25 miles, 35 minutes.
Sub-areas we cover too: Toledo (county seat, 5 miles north), Jewett, Hidalgo, Diona, Hazel Dell, and the rural pieces of south Cumberland County.
Common Greenup jobs: Embarras riverbottom drainage and pond cleanouts (the river holds water in the bottoms even in dry years), rural driveway installs and farm-lane regrading on the rolling ground south of US-40, culvert installs and replacements on the township roads that cross the Embarras and its tributaries, pole barn pads, and the occasional foundation dig. Anything in the river bottoms needs drainage planning baked in from day one — we plan around it. The township roads crossing the Embarras and its tributaries are hard on pipe, and culvert replacement on those crossings is regular work for us.
No travel surcharge. Greenup jobs price the same as Mattoon jobs. The drive is part of our normal service area, not a premium add-on.
Greenup, Toledo, Jewett, Hidalgo, Diona, Hazel Dell, and the rural pieces of south Cumberland County.
US-40 east or IL-130 south — about 25 miles, 35 minutes with equipment.
Yes — pond cleanouts, drainage tile, culvert work, and grading. Bottom ground holds water, so the plan has to account for it. We do.
Yes — Greenup, Jewett, Hidalgo, Toledo, Janesville, and rural Cumberland County. We also overlap into Cumberland, Coles, and Jasper counties.
No. Mobilization is built into the estimate. One straight number.
Yes — the Komatsu PC150LC and JCB mini are sized for it. Drainage failures, soft fields, and creek-side work are routine in this area.
The volume here is drainage work, rock driveways, and culvert repairs along the Embarras River bottoms.
Yes — full liability and equipment coverage. Certificate of Insurance available on request.
"Does a fantastic job! I called Levi to handle a rock drive, and he was here within two business days. It took only a day to get it done. He is a great person to work with — very patient, kind, and a genuine person. I will definitely use his services again when the need arises."
Mattoon, IL is roughly the center of our 60-mile service radius. We work Greenup and the surrounding county regularly.
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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