Riley’s Services Inc, Excavation & Property Services

About Riley’s Services Inc, Excavation & Property Services

Riley's Services Inc works the steep ground around Mendon, where Route 4 climbs east out of Rutland toward the Killington ridgeline and the hardwoods lean in close on either side. The work here is heavy and patient — land clearing and brush removal, foundation and septic excavation, site grading, drainage ditches and utility trenching, natural stone retaining walls, patios and walkways, slope stabilization — with dump trucks hauling gravel, topsoil, riprap, crushed stone and fill up roads that never quite run level. Come winter the same equipment pushes snow off those pitches; in the green months, mowing keeps the opened ground trim and legible. There is a plain satisfaction in a hillside that finally sheds its water, a wall that sets true against the slope, a drive cleared before first light reaches the notch. From Killington to Lake George and across Rutland County, the finish shows in the shape of the land itself.