Ground Improvement Services

About Ground Improvement Services

South of town, where Valparaiso's streets give way to the low, rolling ground of the Valpo Moraine, snow behaves differently — pooling in draws and hollows before it ever reaches the flatter yards near Rogers-Lakewood Park. Ground Improvement Services knows that terrain the way a farmer knows a field, and works the subdivisions built into those old glacial folds one cleared driveway at a time. Some mornings the fog off the low ground beats the plow trucks to the cul-de-sacs, and the crew clears through white that hasn't fully decided if it's snow or mist. Salt goes down on the slopes first, where the grade holds ice longest into the afternoon. It's ground-level work matched to uneven ground, finished before the school buses start their runs.