LaCroix Construction Excavating

About LaCroix Construction Excavating

A few miles upriver, Gavins Point Dam keeps a stretch of the Missouri open all winter, and the bald eagles that gather there are usually the only ones watching when LaCroix Construction Excavating runs its loaders down the rural section roads before dawn. This is a company built to move earth, so the same machines that cut foundations and dig basements in warmer months swing wide blades across gravel driveways and farm lane approaches once the snow gets past what a plow truck can handle. Wind off the open lake water pushes fresh drifts back across a cleared lane by evening, which is why the crew often makes the same stretch of road twice in one day. Out past the edge of town, where the bluffs give way to farmland, a cleared driveway means a school bus can turn around and a grain truck can still get to the elevator. There's a particular quiet to that country darkness, headlights and hydraulics the only sound, that never quite loses its appeal.