Barrows Excavating

Barrows Excavating is a one-person outfit out of Harwich run by Bryan Barrows, who's been at it since 2007 — the Better Business Bureau's file on the sole proprietorship puts it at 19 years in business, even though the page itself carries no rating. The clearest picture of what they actually do comes from a run of municipal building permits: septic installs, repairs and upgrades scattered across West Yarmouth, South Dennis, East Dennis and Yarmouth Port going back to 2013, plus grading, drainage and trenching work tied to those same jobs. In 2023, Barrows also took on a higher-profile demolition, taking down the Dockside Restaurant in Hyannis to clear the waterfront lot for a marine storage facility. On the review side there isn't much yet — a single 2026 Google review — but it's a detailed one: a South Yarmouth apartment resident credited the company with the best snow plowing she'd seen in 13 years living there, on point with plowing and salting the whole property. One thing worth checking before hiring: BuildZoom shows a 'Verified License' badge on its profile, but the page itself publishes no license number, type or authority, and even recommends confirming license status independently. For septic, grading or demolition work on the Cape, this is a long-running, small operation with a real permit history behind it — just verify the license yourself rather than taking a directory badge at face value.