Wasatch Earthworks

About Wasatch Earthworks

Heber Valley holds its own weather the way a bowl holds water, cold air pools in over the valley floor on clear winter nights until Midway wakes to a fog the surrounding peaks never see, burning off slow around the horse properties and the old dairy barns that still dot the county. Earthwork in a valley like this means grading and drainage that account for ground that floods in spring runoff and freezes solid by December, work done with an eye on the mountains ringing the whole basin. Once that fog lifts and the plowing starts, it's the same attention to the valley's particular low spots that keeps driveways and lanes clear rather than iced over in the shadowed morning hours. There's a steady kind of satisfaction in ground properly drained, and in a long ranch lane opened up before the day's chores start. Midway's valley floor takes a patient hand in every direction the ground moves, up, down, or under snow.