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Jasper County seat. Broken field tile, wet spots, culverts, pond work and excavation in Newton and southeast central Illinois.
📞 Call (217) 809-0779 Free EstimateNewton is the Jasper County seat — 30 miles south of Mattoon along the Embarras River. Newton Lake state recreation area is right outside town, with surrounding farms and acreage.
Brohez Trucking LLC is an excavation company working Newton and Jasper County out of Mattoon, and we handle the full range of dirt and site work here — rock driveways for rural homes and farms, foundation excavation, pond cleanout, drainage, culvert installs, and demolition. If it involves moving earth, we've done it in Jasper County.
Newton Lake and Embarras River bottoms make drainage and pond work a regular call. Lake-adjacent properties, farm pond restoration, and old-farmstead demo round out the mix on this side.
Most of the drainage calls we get out of Newton are the same job: a wet spot that never used to be there. Somewhere upstream a clay or plastic line has crushed, a joint has pulled apart, a tile blowout has washed a hole open, or the outlet at the ditch has silted shut and the whole run has backed up behind it. The water shows up a hundred feet from the actual break, which is why guessing with a backhoe gets expensive.
We dig on the line, not on the wet spot — probe the run, find the break, cut it out, and put the section back on grade with the right coupler so the joint doesn't become the next failure. Where a run has lost fall entirely, we re-cut the trench to a continuous grade back to a real outlet. Silted or crushed outlets get re-set with a rodent guard on the end. Surface inlets and tile risers in a field low spot get rebuilt or relocated so the tractor stops hitting them.
What we don't do: we don't run a tile plow, so a full pattern-tile system on a whole field is a tiling outfit's trade and we'll say so. Repair, replacement, outlets, risers and targeted lines through the wet ground — that's our end of it, and it's most of what a Jasper County farm actually needs.
Call (217) 809-0779 for a free estimate anywhere in Newton, Wheeler, Sainte Marie, Willow Hill, or rural Jasper County.
Foundations, basements, drainage, trenching, and site prep across Jasper County.
Crushed limestone driveways for rural and residential properties around Newton.
Barns, garages, foundations, and structures torn down clean.
Brush, trees, fence rows, and stumps cleared from Newton-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 Jasper County.
Driveway, field, and road culvert installs and replacements.
French drain installation in Newton — 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 Newton and surrounding areas. Soggy yards, standing water, and broken field tile fixed.
Trenching in Newton 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 Newton. Stripped, cut, compacted, ready for the slab crew.
Footing digs, basement excavation, crawl spaces, and pole barn footings across Newton. Square corners, accurate grade, drainage tied in.
Single yard stumps to whole fence rows pulled or ground in Newton. 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 Newton — keyed core trench, clay placed in compacted lifts, outlet and emergency spillway set to elevation.
Recreational, fishing and farm lakes near Newton — 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 Newton — 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.
Pond work around Newton means reading the ground first. Jasper County runs sandier toward the Embarras than the clay ground west of us, and sand under a basin is the difference between a pond that holds and one that never fills — a factor in what a pond costs. Ponds already built on that ground usually need the bottom and dam keyed back into clay: farm pond repair.
In Newton, 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 Newton 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 Newton 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 a demolition contractor in Newton, IL and across Jasper County. We take down farm buildings, barns, grain bins, garages, mobile homes, and houses through Newton and the Embarras River farm ground, and out toward the Newton Lake recreation properties. Acreage and lake-area sites usually mean a long lane — we check that the loaded trucks can actually get in and out before we quote.
See barn demolition, grain bin removal, house demolition, or the whole demolition services list. Call (217) 809-0779 and we'll come walk the property free.
The Embarras runs straight through Jasper County and the bottoms hold water year round, so tile down here is working against a river rather than just a wet spring. Outlets that submerge at high stage silt in, and a silted outlet takes the run above it with it.
This is also old oil country, and that matters before anybody digs. Abandoned wells, forgotten flow lines, and old pads are a hazard to know about, so we confirm what's underneath before opening ground on a tile locate. Once we're clear, it's the usual work: find the failure from the outlet up, dig down to the bad section, splice or replace it, and get the outlet back above the waterline where we can.
Repair and targeted lines only — we're not a pattern-tile outfit. See drain tile repair, trenching in Newton, or grassed waterways. Free estimate — (217) 809-0779.
Newton is the seat of Jasper County — about 2,800 people, on the Embarras River in southeast central Illinois. It's the southern edge of our regular service area, about 50 miles south of Mattoon by IL-130. We come for the right job; the drive is built into the estimate.
Sub-areas we cover too: Sainte Marie, Willow Hill, Wheeler, West Liberty, and the rural pieces of Jasper County. Some of our Newton trips also pull us into north Richland County.
Common Newton jobs: Embarras riverbottom drainage and pond work (the river runs straight through the county and the bottoms hold water year-round), ag drainage tile and grassed waterway work, rural farm-lane regrading, foundation digs on the rural acreages, and pond cleanouts on the farm ponds across Jasper County. This is older oil-country too — wells and abandoned pads are a hazard to know about before any big dig. Bottom-ground crossings in Jasper County silt shut when they're set below river stage — some clean out, and the ones that don't need culvert replacement reset to a real grade.
No travel surcharge. Newton jobs price the same as Mattoon jobs. The drive is part of our normal service area, not a premium add-on.
Newton sits at the southern edge of our 60-mile radius — about 50 miles south of Mattoon. We come for the right job (typically full-day or multi-day work) and the drive is built into the estimate.
IL-130 south — about 50 miles, an hour and ten minutes with equipment in tow.
Yes — pond cleanouts, drainage tile, and waterway work in the river bottoms is regular work for us in Jasper and Cumberland counties.
Yes — Newton, Wheeler, Sainte Marie, Willow Hill, Yale, and rural Jasper County. We also overlap into Effingham, Cumberland, and Richland counties.
No. Mobilization is built into the estimate. One straight number.
Yes — sloped lake-adjacent grades, recreation cabin lots, and tighter rural access are routine. Our excavators handle the terrain.
The volume here is pond cleanout, drainage, and rural rock driveways.
Yes — full liability and equipment coverage. Certificate of Insurance available on request.
"Excellent service. Very personal. Used twice on two different projects. Going to use for the third. Highly recommended."
Mattoon, IL is roughly the center of our 60-mile service radius. We work Newton 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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