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- 11 reviews in the last 6 monthsNo negatives
- 40 customer photosOf completed work
Highlights
- Retaining walls — recurring, detailed praise for stone and granite builds
- Fast emergency response — after-hours sewer and storm-damage calls
- Clear communication — timelines and quotes explained upfront
- Family-run crew — same core team named across years of reviews
Fifty-one Google reviews, every single one five stars — the kind of run you don't often see once a business ages past its first few jobs. Connell Excavation is the outfit Haverhill-area homeowners reach for when the yard needs to be re-shaped: retaining walls, drainage, driveway prep, and the digging that goes with a sewer or water-line replacement. Reviewers repeatedly describe it as a family-run crew, with Kaden Connell running the jobs alongside Rob and Jake. The volume backs the pattern, not just the headline number: 51 reviews from 2022 through 2026 across three sources, 11 of them in the last six months with zero negative. Retaining walls come up again and again — a 2024 review describes a three-tiered wall with a new granite entrance, and a 2025 review a 120-foot wall built to hold back a newly elevated yard, plus underground utility lines run 500 feet from house to street with drainage added along the driveway. When jobs turn urgent, the crew has shown up after hours: an April 2026 review describes a main sewer line overflowing into the basement getting assessed the same night and finished the next day, and a 2023 review recounts a gravel driveway washed out by a flash flood restored within 24 hours of the first call. Communication is the other thread that keeps repeating — clear timelines, quotes explained, and quick answers to questions. A May 2026 review calls out no surprises with the quote or schedule, and a 2024 write-up separately describes clear communication and punctual, neat work. Nothing negative surfaces anywhere in the record, so there isn't a caution to flag before calling. Jobs range from a single trench dug for an electrician's conduit (a 2025 review) to multi-day yard overhauls — a 2025 review describes fence removal, a French drain, a 120-foot retaining wall and reseeding finished in four days. For site work, drainage, or a retaining wall in the Merrimack Valley, this is a well-documented, consistently well-reviewed call; get the design specifics and timeline in writing, as with any hardscape project.
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