One crew for what's in the ground
Utility work is where projects tangle: four trades, four trenches, four mobilizations across the same hundred feet of ground. We consolidate it — trenching for every utility on the project, combined runs where codes allow, and coordination with your plumber, electrician, and the serving utilities so the ground opens once.
Hooper's Excavation and Demolition performs utility trenching and installation for new construction, replacements, and upgrades across Central Indiana — residential, farm, and light commercial.
Utility services
- Water service lines — well and municipal, trenched below frost line.
- Sewer laterals — house-to-main and house-to-septic runs with correct fall, bedding, and cleanouts.
- Electrical & communications conduit — power, fiber, and comms pathways with pull strings in.
- Combined utility trenches — multiple utilities, one trench, code-required separations.
- Culverts and drainage structures — driveway crossings, catch basins, and outlet work.
- Utility repairs — dig-downs to find and fix breaks, with careful restoration.
Sewer laterals: fall is everything
Sewer runs live and die on slope — the standard is about a quarter inch per foot. Too little and solids sit; too much and liquids outrun them. We shoot grade over the full run before we cut, set bedding so the pipe holds its line forever, and install cleanouts where future-you will thank us.