Soil testing & engineered design
We excavate profile test pits, work with licensed engineers on the soils report and site plan, and lay out the drain field, tank, and setbacks — the design your Eagle County Environmental Health permit stands on.
Service Area · Vail Valley / western slope
Senior-led septic, excavation, driveways, water storage, and custom building across Eagle County — Vail Valley / western slope at 6,500–9,000 ft — with the hard mountain site work handled in-house.
We do more than dig a hole and drop in a tank.
Tri-Lakes Contracting is a licensed septic installer, excavation contractor, and custom home builder working throughout Eagle County. Site work and septic permitting are the critical first steps before you can even break ground on a build — and they’re exactly what we handle, start to finish.
Because we hold the septic, driveway, and building sides in-house, we bundle them into one path instead of stitching together three separate contractors: soil testing and engineered design, excavation and grading, the septic system, water storage, and the home itself — one crew, one point of contact, on your schedule.
We know Eagle County terrain inside and out — valley benches, steep resort hillsides, and variable rocky soils. Whether your property is in Vail, Eagle, Gypsum and Edwards, we deliver site work built for Vail Valley / western slope conditions and permitted under Eagle County Environmental Health and Colorado’s Regulation 43.
What we handle in Eagle County
We excavate profile test pits, work with licensed engineers on the soils report and site plan, and lay out the drain field, tank, and setbacks — the design your Eagle County Environmental Health permit stands on.
Full onsite wastewater systems — conventional, pressure-dosed, and advanced-treatment — installed for Vail Valley / western slope ground and Eagle County Environmental Health review.
Access, building pad, utilities, and all-weather driveways cut for Eagle County — valley benches, steep resort hillsides, and variable rocky soils.
Buried cisterns and fire-suppression storage for lots without a reliable well, or where the county requires stored water on site.
From a build-ready design or your own plans, we take a raw Eagle County lot through to a finished, permitted home.
Before you buy or build, a clear read on what the lot can support — soil, slope, setbacks, water, and the permit path.
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What we don’t do
We don’t design or stamp septic systems ourselves — that work is always completed by a licensed engineer. But we work closely with our engineering partners so you receive a complete, permit-ready package that passes Eagle County Environmental Health review the first time, without the back-and-forth that stalls a Eagle County build.
Already have engineered septic or OWTS plans? Upload the PDF for an instant Colorado installation estimate, then have Tri-Lakes, a licensed Colorado OWTS installer, price and build the system.
Where we work in Eagle County
We serve Vail, Eagle, Gypsum, Edwards and Avon and the surrounding Vail Valley / western slope high country, out from Eagle. At 6,500–9,000 ft, Eagle County brings valley benches, steep resort hillsides, and variable rocky soils — conditions our crews work in every week, not once a season.
Eagle County — questions
Yes. We excavate the soil test pits, coordinate the engineered design with a licensed engineer, and hand you a permit-ready package for Eagle County Environmental Health under Colorado Regulation 43. On Vail Valley / western slope ground — valley benches, steep resort hillsides, and variable rocky soils — that soil evaluation is what the whole system is designed from.
That’s our model. Because we hold the septic, excavation, and building sides in-house, we sequence them into one path — soil test, design, driveway, septic, water, and the home — instead of you chasing three contractors across Eagle County.
Vail, Eagle, Gypsum, Edwards and Avon and the surrounding high country, out from Eagle. If your lot is raw Vail Valley / western slope ground, that’s exactly the work we’re built for.
We don’t design or stamp septic systems ourselves — that’s always done by a licensed engineer. We work hand-in-hand with our engineering partners so your package passes Eagle County Environmental Health review the first time.
Tell us about the lot and we'll map the whole path — feasibility, design, permit, and build.
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