Excavation & Underground Utilities in Franklin Lakes, NJ
JWSR LLC is a local, licensed and insured excavation and utility contractor working in Franklin Lakes and across Bergen County. Franklin Lakes sits about 21 miles southeast of our Hamburg yard, roughly 30 minutes out, so we can get a crew and the right machine there without a long wait.
JWSR LLC is a licensed and insured excavation and utility contractor based in Hamburg, New Jersey, about 21 miles from Franklin Lakes, working across Bergen County. About 57.2% of Franklin Lakes's land area sits inside a public water delivery area, shared between 2 systems, the largest being Veolia Water NJ Franklin Lakes, and the rest is on private wells. About 90.8% of the town is inside a sewer service area, the largest run by Northwest Bergen County UA. We do the underground work either situation calls for: water and sewer service lines, septic, storm drainage, excavation and restoration. Call 862-268-2510 for a free on-site estimate.
Replacing aging driveways and walls in Franklin Lakes
Franklin Lakes is a long-established community, and in older neighborhoods the driveways, retaining walls, and drainage that went in decades ago are wearing out. A big part of what we do here is tearing out cracked, failing work and rebuilding it to last, often on tight lots where access takes real care.
We also do a fair amount of site work where older properties are being rebuilt or expanded. That is a big part of what we do here, but it is far from the only thing. We still handle sewer and water lines, septic, grading, driveways, and emergency digs across town.
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Bergen County is dense and suburban, with tight lots and older infrastructure. That means precise excavation, sewer and water main work, and underground utilities where there is no room for error.
In a built-up borough like Franklin Lakes, the common jobs are sewer and water lines, underground utilities, and excavation in tighter spots. Whether it is an emergency sewer or water line dig-out, a septic system, a lot that will not drain, or a new driveway, we bring our own equipment and an operator who knows the ground in this part of Bergen County. We show up when we say we will, and we leave your property graded and clean.
Services for homes and businesses in Franklin Lakes
Sewer & Water Lines in Franklin Lakes
Emergency sewer and water line dig-outs, repairs, and full replacements.
Learn more →Utility Construction & Repair in Franklin Lakes
Water, sewer, and underground utility installation, trenching, and emergency repair.
Learn more →Excavation in Franklin Lakes
Site prep, dig-outs, trenching, and land development for any project.
Learn more →Driveways, Roads & Lots in Franklin Lakes
New driveways, road repairs, and parking lot redos built on a base that lasts.
Learn more →Grading & Drainage in Franklin Lakes
Fix standing water, regrade your lot, and protect your property from erosion.
Learn more →Retaining Walls in Franklin Lakes
Block and boulder retaining walls that hold back soil and look sharp.
Learn more →Some of what we have been building
A look at recent excavation, utility, and site work from around Bergen County and northern New Jersey.
What tends to be in the ground in Franklin Lakes
Franklin Lakes has no one dominant building era. Its 3,879 housing units are spread across the decades, with the 1980s the largest single share at 19%.
Roughly 36% dates to the 1940s through early 1970s. That is the Orangeburg window, and pipe from it is past the age where it can be counted on.
With 24% built since 2000, a good part of Franklin Lakes is newer, and there the work is usually drainage and grading rather than pipe.
Housing-age figures: US Census American Community Survey 2019–2023 5-year estimates, table B25034. Pipe service lives are documented industry figures. What is actually under any one property varies, so we confirm it on site before we quote a replacement.
Most of Franklin Lakes is on public water, but not all of it
About 57.2% of Franklin Lakes’s land area sits inside a public water purveyor’s delivery area, shared between 2 different systems. The largest is Veolia Water NJ Franklin Lakes, then Oakland WD. Sewer actually reaches further than water here, about 90.8% of the town against 57.2%, which is the less common way round. It means properties drawing from a well while discharging to a public sewer, so the two sides of the house answer to different owners. All of this is land area rather than houses, and a main running past a property does not mean the property is on it, since plenty kept the well after the main went in.
What replacing a water service involves, and who supplies water in every town we cover.
Source: NJDEP Purveyor Service Areas of New Jersey, edition 2025-07-03, measured against US Census municipal boundaries. NJDEP maps actual delivery areas for public community systems, meaning fifteen or more year-round connections; smaller shared and association systems are real but do not appear. Percentages are share of land area, not share of homes, and a state file can lag a change of ownership. The name on your bill beats any map, including this one.
The part that changes the job here
Franklin Lakes is one of the member towns of the Northwest Bergen County Utilities Authority, along with Allendale, Ho-Ho-Kus, Mahwah, Ramsey, Saddle River, Upper Saddle River, Waldwick and others. Water is split between Veolia and the Oakland water department and NJDEP maps only about 57% of the borough's land inside a water delivery area.
The authority has awarded a $3.8 million contract to build a sanitary sewer collection system serving the Franklin Lakes Central Business District, which is how a business district that grew up on septic gets onto public sewer.
Most of Franklin Lakes is inside a sewer service area
About 90.8% of Franklin Lakes’s land area falls inside a mapped sewer service area. The largest share goes to Northwest Bergen County UA, with 4 smaller works alongside it. A service area is where sewer is planned and permitted, not a promise that a main runs past your house, so the only way to settle it for one address is to look. Outside it, septic.
Sewer connections, laterals and septic work are all things we do, and which one you need is usually settled in one phone call. Sewer and water line work.
Source: NJDEP Sewer Service Areas, read 2026-09-08, measured against US Census municipal boundaries. Percentages are share of land area, not share of homes. Most polygons in this layer are small on-site treatment works for a single school, campground or business, so read the percentages rather than the count.
Working in Franklin Lakes
How fast can you get to Franklin Lakes?
Franklin Lakes is roughly 30 minutes from our Hamburg base, so we can usually be out for an estimate quickly, and for a sewer or water line emergency we start moving right away, day or night.
Do you handle sewer and water line work in Franklin Lakes?
Yes. Sewer and water line repair and replacement is core work for us in built-up parts of Bergen County like Franklin Lakes, including tight-access digs and emergency line breaks. Many homes here built between 1945 and 1972 still have Orangeburg sewer laterals, a wood pulp and tar pipe that fails with age, and replacing those laterals is routine work for us.
Are you licensed and insured to work in Bergen County?
Yes. JWSR LLC is a licensed and insured New Jersey contractor, and we work across Bergen County and six other counties. We pull the permits, mark out, and do it by the book.
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Need excavation in Franklin Lakes?
Free on-site estimates and 24/7 emergency service, about 30 minutes from our Hamburg yard. Call 862-268-2510.
Call 862-268-2510