Site Work, Concrete & Drainage Contractor in Medford, NJ
Serving Medford Township in Burlington County from our family-owned Cherry Hill yard, since 1979.
Yes. J.A. Cuzzupe Inc. works throughout Medford Township in Burlington County and has served this area since 1979. On Medford's large Pinelands-edge lots we handle excavation and land clearing, drainage and regrading, long private driveway concrete, septic-area site work and inground pool removal.
Free written estimates. Licensed and insured. 24/7 emergency response for sewer, water and storm failures.
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Services in Medford.
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Excavation & Grading
Land clearing, stump and debris removal, building pads and cut-and-fill on large wooded parcels where the machine route matters as much as the dig. Sandy trench walls need proper support even at modest depth.
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Drainage & French Drains
Sand that drains everywhere except over a hardpan lens, plus low ground near the streams. We find the perched layer and the wet season high point rather than assuming sandy soil will take whatever we send it.
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Concrete Driveways & Patios
Long private drives, turnarounds and garage aprons where the base has to carry delivery and service trucks, not just cars. Patios and pads on lots with no curb line to tie into.
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Inground Pool Removal
Older pools on big Medford lots, where a high seasonal water table can make backfill behave badly if it isn't placed and compacted correctly. Full removal or engineered partial fill, debris hauled off.
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Sewer & Water Line Repair
Where public sewer or water is available, we handle the connection and replacement runs. On septic and well properties we do the excavation and site work around the system rather than the system design itself.
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Working in Medford.
Housing stock
Medford is a large-lot township and that changes every job. There are 1970s and 80s homes on one-, two- and three-acre wooded parcels, older lake-community houses around Medford Lakes' periphery that started small and grew, and newer custom construction on cleared land. Many properties are on septic rather than public sewer, and on well rather than public water, which means the underground work here is about systems on your own land rather than a lateral to a street main. Long gravel and concrete drives, detached garages and outbuildings are common, and so are additions built over crawl spaces.
Ground conditions
This is Pinelands-edge ground: sandy soils that drain quickly in most places, interrupted by clay and hardpan layers that perch water and by genuinely wet ground near the streams and cedar swamps. Sand is easy to dig and terrible to leave unsupported, so trench walls need attention even at modest depth. Where the seasonal high water table is close to the surface — and in parts of Medford it is — anything below a few feet can take on water, which matters for basements, for pool removals and for any excavation near a wetland margin. Wetlands and buffer areas are a real constraint here, not a formality.
Permits & inspections
Medford Township Construction and Inspections
- Phone
- (609) 654-2608
- Address
- 49 Union Street, Medford, NJ 08055
- Hours
- Monday–Friday 8:30am–4:30pm
We file the permits and schedule the inspections ourselves — it isn’t left on your plate.
We work throughout Medford — Medford Village, Route 70, Kirby's Mill, Taunton Lake area, Stokes Road and the streets in between.
Medford questions, answered.
Yes, with the location of the tank, distribution box and field established first. We dig, grade and haul around a system, and we do the excavation portion of work others design. What we don't do is guess at where a field runs — driving a machine across a disposal field can destroy it, so we locate before we mobilize.
It can affect what's permitted, particularly clearing, soil disturbance and anything near a wetland or buffer, and some approvals go beyond the township. This is exactly the kind of thing we confirm with the township and any reviewing agency for your specific parcel before committing to a scope — we won't tell you it's fine because it usually is.
Almost always a hardpan or clay lens under the sand that perches water, or ground low enough that the seasonal water table reaches it. Sandy soil above an impermeable layer behaves like a bathtub. We dig test holes to find the layer before designing anything, because a standard french drain sitting above a perched layer accomplishes very little.
Yes, and the base is the whole job. A quarter-mile drive that oil trucks and delivery vehicles use needs real thickness, proper subgrade preparation and drainage at the low points, otherwise it cracks in the first couple of winters. We'll also tell you honestly when a properly rebuilt stone drive is the better value for a given property.
It's more technical. Water in the excavation affects how backfill compacts, and poorly placed fill in a wet hole becomes a settling depression a year later. We dewater as needed, place fill in controlled lifts and compact each one, so the area grades out and stays put.
Towns next to Medford.
- Marlton, NJ
- Medford Lakes, NJ — Town page coming soon — call (856) 488-2227
- Mount Laurel, NJ
- Lumberton, NJ — Town page coming soon — call (856) 488-2227
- Berlin, NJ — Town page coming soon — call (856) 488-2227
- Mount Holly, NJ — Town page coming soon — call (856) 488-2227