Richard Ryan Excavation

About Richard Ryan Excavation

Sprout Creek country is long driveways and farm lanes, the kind that run a quarter mile off the road before a house comes into view. After a heavy wet storm those lanes hold snow like setting cement, and that is the work Richard Ryan Excavation takes on — plowing drives and lots, pushing banks back to make room for the next one, clearing walks and salting the ice that forms where meltwater runs across the pavement. Heavy ground calls for heavy equipment and for someone who knows where the culverts and shoulders sit under all that white. The good moment comes at first light, when a lane that was impassable at midnight is open end to end. Richard Ryan Excavation covers Lagrangeville and LaGrange and works into Beekman, Union Vale, Poughkeepsie and Hopewell Junction.