MID TN EXCAVATOR
Septic System Installation in Middle Tennessee
Licensed septic system installation for residential and rural properties across Humphreys, Dickson, Hickman, Perry, Maury, Montgomery, and Davidson counties.
JD Lee Excavating installs septic systems for new home builds, raw land development, and existing properties across Middle Tennessee — licensed, permitted, and installed to state and county standards.
A septic system is the last thing most people think about and the first thing that causes serious problems when it wasn’t installed correctly. We handle the full installation — site evaluation, permits, excavation, system placement, and final grading — so the homeowner has one contractor responsible for the entire process from raw ground to a functioning system.
COMMERCIAL SEPTIC INSTALLATION
Commercial septic installation requires a higher level of coordination than residential work — larger systems, engineered designs, permitting that involves multiple agencies, and installation that has to align with the rest of the site work schedule. We install commercial septic systems from approved plans, coordinate with engineers and county health departments, and keep the installation phase moving so it doesn’t hold up the rest of the project. Our excavation equipment handles the trenching, tank placement, and field line installation in fewer passes than smaller operators — which matters on commercial timelines where every day of delay has a cost.
RESIDENTIAL SEPTIC INSTALLATION
For a homeowner building on raw land, the septic system is what makes the property livable. We handle residential septic installation as part of the full site package — coordinated with clearing, grading, and building pad work so the property moves through every phase without gaps or delays between contractors. We pull the permits, evaluate the site for proper system sizing and drain field placement, excavate for the tank and field lines, install the system to state standards, and grade the area back to finished condition. One contractor, one schedule, one point of contact from the first site visit to final inspection.
What Goes Into a Septic Installation
A properly installed septic system starts with the site evaluation and ends with a system that performs for decades without problems.
- Soil evaluation and perc testing to determine system type and size
- Permit application and approval through the county health department
- Tank location and drain field layout staked and confirmed
- Excavation for tank pit and field line trenches
- Septic tank set and inlet and outlet connections made
- Distribution box installed and field lines laid to grade
- Trenches backfilled and compacted without disturbing system components
- Surface graded back to finished condition and seeded or stabilized
Why the Installation Has to Be Right the First Time
A septic system buried under two feet of soil is invisible the moment the ground gets graded back over it. There is no way to inspect it, adjust it, or fix minor issues without excavating the entire system back out. A tank set at the wrong elevation, field lines that don’t drain properly, or a drain field placed without adequate setbacks from wells and property lines — these aren’t problems that surface in the first week. They surface two or three years later when the system backs up, the drain field fails, or a health department inspection flags a violation.
We install septic systems with the same attention to grade, drainage, and long-term performance that we bring to every other phase of site work. The permit gets pulled before the first shovel goes in. The system gets installed to the approved design. The inspection gets passed before we grade back over it. That’s the only way to do it.
25+
Years in Business
100
Mile Service Radius
$
3MM Licensed Project Capacity
Licensed & Bonded
Contractor #83847
Septic #14383
Where We Work
We’re based in McEwen, TN and run crews across Middle Tennessee — closer to home for smaller residential jobs, up to 100 miles out for the right commercial project.
Core Service Area
- McEwen
- Waverly
- Dickson
- Erin
- Hurricane Mills
- Vanleer
- Centerville
- Tennessee Ridge
- New Johnsonville
- Cumberland City
Extended Service Area
- Nashville
- Clarksville
- Columbia
- Franklin
- Murfreesboro
- Spring Hill
- Brentwood
- Lebanon
- Hendersonville
- Smyrna
Commercial
Large-acreage projects, subdivision prep, commercial site work, and infrastructure earthwork across Middle Tennessee. We carry the equipment, the license, and the bonding to handle jobs that smaller operators can’t touch.
- Land developers and subdivision builders
- General contractors sourcing a dependable excavation subcontractor
- Large private landowners with ongoing earthwork needs across
- Humphreys, Dickson, Hickman, Perry, Maury, Montgomery, and Davidson counties
- Civil engineers and architects coordinating site development
- Project managers and estimators putting together commercial bids
Residential
If you just closed on raw land and need someone to make it buildable — clearing, grading, driveway, septic, building pad — that’s the job we were built for. One contractor from raw ground to ready-to-build, start to finish.
- Homeowners building on raw or wooded acreage in Middle Tennessee
- Land buyers who need site prep before a builder can start
- People relocating from Nashville or out of state who want the process handled professionally
- Residential contractors who need a reliable excavation sub on their schedule
- First-time land builders who need one contractor to handle every phase — clearing, grading, septic, and driveway — start to finish
WHY JD LEE EXCAVATING
Unlike most small, one-man operations, JD Lee Excavating runs a full fleet of heavy equipment — giving us the capacity to handle large-scale residential and commercial projects without delay, without rental dependency, and without sending the wrong machine to the wrong job.
Our fleet includes bulldozers with rippers, excavators with heavy-duty bucket attachments, pans and scrapers, haul trucks, low boys, and dump trucks. For compaction work — particularly on building pads and pond construction — we run both a padfoot compactor and a smooth drum roller, equipment that most local operators simply don’t own. We also run a GPS-based grade control system for precision earthwork on projects where tolerances matter.
We’re capable and agile enough to turn around smaller, local jobs quickly. But what sets JD Lee apart in the Middle Tennessee market is the depth of iron behind every project — owned, maintained, and ready to work.
- 25+ Years in Middle Tennessee
- $3M Licensed Project Capacity
- 100-Mile Service Radius
- Licensed & Bonded Contractor #83847
