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Yard grading, land grading and full excavation — the shop is here in town. We answer the phone, we know the streets, and we can usually be on-site faster than anyone driving in.
📞 Call (217) 809-0779 Free EstimateIf you searched yard grading contractor in Mattoon, IL or land grading near Mattoon, this is the crew and the shop is on U.S. 45 here in town. Yard grading in Mattoon is usually one of three jobs: the ground falls back toward the house instead of away from it, a low spot holds water for days after a rain, or a yard got torn up by a build and needs putting back to a grade that mows. Land grading on the acreage side is the bigger version — a lot pushed to fall the right way, a lane crowned so it sheds, a building pad brought to elevation. Same D6N and the same operator either way. Free on-site look — (217) 809-0779.
Brohez Trucking LLC is based in Mattoon, IL — Coles County, central Illinois. The shop, the equipment, and the dump trucks are all here. When you call (217) 809-0779, you're calling Mattoon — Levi answers.
We handle excavation, demolition, rock driveways, dirt hauling, pond work, drainage, foundations, and site prep for Mattoon homeowners, contractors, farmers, and businesses. Same-day response is normal in town — emergency culvert washouts, drainage that needs fixed before the next rain, demo work on a tight schedule.
If it's in Mattoon, we're not "coming in from out of town." We're already here.
That's the call we take most often in town, and it usually comes after a wet spring. Water standing along a foundation, a back yard that stays soft a week after everyone else's has dried, a low corner that won't grow anything. Most of the time the ground is doing exactly what it was shaped to do — it just wasn't shaped to send water anywhere.
A yard grading contractor fixes that by moving dirt, not by adding pipe: strip and stockpile the topsoil, cut the high side, fill the low side, and re-establish a fall that carries water away from the house and out to somewhere it's allowed to go. On bigger ground the same work is called land grading — pasture, acreage, a build site before anything gets poured. Same dozer, same laser grade control, same crew.
Mattoon is flat, and flat is the hard case: a fraction of a percent of slope is the difference between water moving and water sitting, which is why we run grade control instead of eyeballing passes. The full scope, equipment and process live on our grading page. If the surface turns out not to be the problem, that's drainage — and we'll tell you which one you've got at the free on-site walk rather than selling you the one we showed up with.
Foundations, basements, drainage, trenching, and site prep across Mattoon.
Crushed limestone driveway installs and repairs across Mattoon properties.
Houses, barns, garages, foundations, and structures torn down clean.
Brush, trees, fence rows, and stumps cleared. Full scope on our land clearing page →
Fill dirt, topsoil, gravel, and rock delivered. Spoils hauled off.
Farm pond and recreation pond cleanouts, restoration, and new ponds.
Driveway and road culvert installs and replacements across Mattoon.
French drain installation in Mattoon — perimeter, footing, and yard French drains to carry off groundwater and dry out wet ground.
Drainage tile, French drains, foundation drains, and yard drainage. Soggy yards and standing water fixed.
Trenching in Mattoon 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 pads, residential foundations, and commercial slab prep — ready for the slab crew.
Footing digs, basement excavation, crawl spaces, and pole barn footings.
Single yard stumps to whole fence rows pulled or ground. Holes backfilled.
Yard grading, driveway, lot, and finish grading in Mattoon — regrade to fix standing water, 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 Mattoon — keyed core trench, clay placed in compacted lifts, outlet and emergency spillway set to elevation.
Recreational, fishing and farm lakes near Mattoon — 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 Mattoon — 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.
In Mattoon, that demolition includes barn demolition, garage & shed teardown, 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 Mattoon 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 Mattoon 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 barn, house, garage, or grain bin teardown.
Brohez Trucking is a Mattoon-based demolition contractor — the shop, the excavator, the dozer, and the dump trucks are all here in town. That means Mattoon teardowns get the shortest mobilization and the shortest debris haul of anywhere we work. Houses, detached garages, sheds, mobile homes, barns, grain bins, foundations, and slabs.
In-town Mattoon lots need a plan for the alley, the neighbors, and the utility disconnects; farm ground out in Coles County needs a plan for the haul road. We handle both. See house demolition, garage demolition, barn demolition, or every demolition service we offer. Call (217) 809-0779 for a free on-site estimate.
Mattoon is home base, so drain tile repair here is same-week work for us more often than not. The heavy Illinoian till that makes this good pond ground is the same clay that makes tile mandatory — water doesn't go anywhere on its own in Coles County, so when a line quits, the wet spot shows up fast and it doesn't dry out on its own.
Most of what we dig up around Mattoon is one of three things: century-old clay tile that's finally collapsed, HDPE crushed by equipment that's a lot heavier than what was rolling over it when it went in, or an outlet that got buried during a fence-row push-out or cut off by a ditch cleaning. In town it's usually a yard line or a footing drain that's plugged; out on the Coles County ground it's a field main. Either way the job is the same — find the failure, dig it, splice or replace, tie it back to the main at the right fall.
We're repair and targeted lines only — we don't run fresh pattern tile across a field, and we'll tell you straight if that's what you actually need. See drain tile repair in Mattoon for how the work goes, or yard drainage in Mattoon if the water is on the surface. Free on-site look — (217) 809-0779.
This is home. The shop is in Mattoon, so trenching in Mattoon, IL is usually same-week work — no travel to price in and no waiting on a crew to come down from somewhere else.
A trench is only as good as its slope. Anybody can open a ditch with a bucket; the job is putting the bottom of that trench on continuous fall from the high end to a real outlet, so water leaves and keeps leaving. On Coles County's flat ground that fall is measured in inches, which is why we shoot it instead of eyeballing it.
What we trench around Mattoon: yard drain and downspout runs at the house, French drain trenches around a foundation, culvert lines under a driveway, sump discharge runs, water service and yard-hydrant lines below frost, and tile lines out on the farm ground north and east of town. The JCB 8040ZTS mini fits the in-town lots off Western and Richmond without wrecking a yard; the Komatsu PC150LC-6 handles the deep and the long.
Straight about the edges: we open, bed and backfill the trench and your licensed electrician or plumber makes the connection — no fiber, telecom, or electrical distribution work. On tile we run targeted lines and repairs, not full pattern-tile installs. Full detail on our trenching service page. Free on-site estimate — (217) 809-0779.
Mattoon is home base — we're on US-45 just north of town — so pond work here is the shortest haul we make and the ground we know best. Coles County sits on heavy Illinoian till: dense clay a couple of feet down that holds water about as well as anything in the state. That's the good news. The catch is relief. Most of the ground around Mattoon is flat to gently rolling, so a pond here is usually a basin cut and shaped with the spoil built into a low dam and bank, not a big dam thrown across a valley. Watersheds are small, so we size the inlet and the pond together — a pond with too little ground feeding it sits low all summer.
Every Mattoon pond we build is clay-lined and runoff-fed, with a keyed core, a shaped emergency spillway, and banks seeded before we leave. If you want the numbers behind a new dig, start with what a pond costs to build. If a pond you already own is losing level or the overflow has cut back into the dam, that's pond dam & spillway repair — and it's usually fixable.
Mattoon sits in Coles County, central Illinois — about 17,000 people, on the I-57 corridor halfway between Champaign and Effingham, and home to Lake Land College. We work all over town: the older neighborhoods on the north and west sides around Peterson Park, the newer subdivisions, the commercial strip on Route 16 and Broadway by Cross County Mall, the industrial zone on the south end, and the rural ground out toward Cooks Mills, Humboldt, and Lake Mattoon.
Sub-areas we cover too: Cooks Mills, Humboldt, Lake Mattoon, Lerna, the rural Coles County roads, and right into Charleston (12 miles east). If you're in Coles County, we're in your area.
Common Mattoon jobs: Foundation digs and basement excavation for new builds, drainage tile fixes for the older neighborhoods with original clay tile, rock driveway installs and refresh on rural lanes, demo on small commercial buildings and houses, pond cleanouts on Lake Mattoon and farm ponds out in the county, and the everyday culvert and drainage work that small-town life turns up. Close to the shop we do a steady amount of culvert replacement — rusted-out and crushed entrance pipe pulled, flowline re-cut, new pipe sized to the ditch.
Recent Mattoon jobs: a backyard in-ground pool excavation and yard regrade, a 42-ton crushed-rock driveway, several tandem loads of fill dirt hauled and placed, and CA-7 driveway rock delivered and spread — all in and around Mattoon over the past few weeks.
Emergency response: If a culvert washes out, a tile breaks, or you've got water where you can't have it — call. Same-day response in town is normal. We'd rather work the emergency than turn it down.
Worth a read first: how to find a broken field tile, how a wet basement gets fixed from the outside, and what time of year is best for yard drainage tile.
Yes — the shop, the equipment, and the dump trucks are in Mattoon. Levi grew up here. When you call (217) 809-0779 you're calling local.
Often, yes — depends on what's already booked. Emergency drainage and culvert work get priority. Call early and we'll tell you straight.
Mattoon proper, plus Cooks Mills, Humboldt, Lake Mattoon, Lerna, Charleston, and the rural Coles County roads in between.
Both. A single load of rock for a driveway patch is fine — same crew, same straight pricing.
Yes — full liability and equipment coverage. Certificate of insurance available on request before we start.
Drainage tile work, rock driveway refreshes, and small demolition are the volume. Foundation digs and pond cleanouts come in regular too.
"Great Service and Great Price! They continued working for 3 days to demolish three buildings and removed all the debris to dumpsters that I ordered. Then, they also came in with dirt to fill the whole backyard. Strongly recommended!"
Mattoon, IL is roughly the center of our 60-mile service radius. We work Mattoon 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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