Excavation & Underground Utilities in Pompton Lakes, NJ
JWSR LLC is a local, licensed and insured excavation and utility contractor working in Pompton Lakes and across Passaic County. Pompton Lakes sits about 18 miles southeast of our Hamburg yard, roughly 25 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 18 miles from Pompton Lakes, working across Passaic County. Essentially all of Pompton Lakes's land area sits inside a public water delivery area, shared between 2 systems, the largest being Pompton Lakes MUA. About 63.7% of the town is inside a sewer service area, the largest run by Pompton Lakes Borough MUA WTP, and the rest is on septic. 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.
Drainage and grading in Pompton Lakes
Pompton Lakes has stretches of low ground and a high water table, so drainage problems and seasonal flooding come up again and again here. That is why a good chunk of what we do here is drainage and grading.
When a yard will not drain, a basement keeps taking water, or a lot floods every spring, that is our wheelhouse: French drains, regrading, swales, and moving water away from the house for good. 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.
Helpful guides: Why grading and drainage matter so much · Storm damage: document before you clean up
Sources: NJDEP Flood Hazard Areas
The Passaic County highlands are rocky and wooded, with lake communities and plenty of septic and drainage work. Steep, tricky ground is where an experienced operator earns their keep.
In a built-up borough like Pompton 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 Passaic County. We show up when we say we will, and we leave your property graded and clean.
Services for homes and businesses in Pompton Lakes
Sewer & Water Lines in Pompton Lakes
Emergency sewer and water line dig-outs, repairs, and full replacements.
Learn more →Utility Construction & Repair in Pompton Lakes
Water, sewer, and underground utility installation, trenching, and emergency repair.
Learn more →Excavation in Pompton Lakes
Site prep, dig-outs, trenching, and land development for any project.
Learn more →Driveways, Roads & Lots in Pompton Lakes
New driveways, road repairs, and parking lot redos built on a base that lasts.
Learn more →Grading & Drainage in Pompton Lakes
Fix standing water, regrade your lot, and protect your property from erosion.
Learn more →Retaining Walls in Pompton 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 Passaic County and northern New Jersey.
What tends to be in the ground in Pompton Lakes
The biggest single stretch of building in Pompton Lakes came in the 1950s, though the borough's 4,235 housing units are spread fairly wide across the decades.
The bigger issue here is the 61% built between 1940 and the early 1970s. Orangeburg pipe was rated fifty years and routinely goes oval and collapses closer to thirty, so in a borough weighted this heavily toward that window it is less a question of if than which street.
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.
Nearly all of Pompton Lakes is on public water
About 99.9% of Pompton Lakes’s land area sits inside a public water purveyor’s delivery area, shared between 2 different systems. The largest is Pompton Lakes MUA, then Township of Wayne. Sewer is the other half of that, and here the two do not line up: about 63.7% of Pompton Lakes sits inside a mapped sewer service area against 99.9% for water, a gap of 36 points. In that gap you get houses on town water with their own septic system in the yard, which catches people out when a tank needs work in a town that feels fully built up. 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
Pompton Lakes runs its own municipal utilities authority for both water and sewer. The water side covers nearly the whole borough, but NJDEP maps only about 64% of it inside the sewer service area, so a Pompton Lakes address is not automatically on public sewer.
The MUA closed two NJ Water Bank loans totaling $16,005,200 in June 2024: one for planning and design of PFAS treatment at Well 3, the other for a new sewer pump station. The PFAS money is design money, so treatment at that well is a project in progress, not a finished one.
Most of Pompton Lakes is inside a sewer service area
About 63.7% of Pompton Lakes’s land area falls inside a mapped sewer service area, treated at Pompton Lakes Borough MUA WTP. 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 Pompton Lakes
How fast can you get to Pompton Lakes?
Pompton Lakes is roughly 25 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 Pompton Lakes?
Yes. Sewer and water line repair and replacement is core work for us in built-up parts of Passaic County like Pompton 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 Passaic County?
Yes. JWSR LLC is a licensed and insured New Jersey contractor, and we work across Passaic County and six other counties. We pull the permits, mark out, and do it by the book.
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Need excavation in Pompton Lakes?
Free on-site estimates and 24/7 emergency service, about 25 minutes from our Hamburg yard. Call 862-268-2510.
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