Featured Projects

Our work in action

Every job tells a story, and we’re proud of the work we leave behind. From remote lease builds to complex reclamation projects, what you’ll see here reflects the grit, care, and know-how our crew brings to every site.

We don’t just move dirt, we move projects forward with integrity, experience, and a commitment to doing things right. These projects speak for themselves, field-tested solutions and results that stand the test of time in the real world.

Former Wellsite

Southern Alberta (Winter/Spring 2025)

Build out an emergency response plan in collaboration with oil company, consulting firm and local emergency services.
Establish a journey management plan with local emergency services and trucking sub contractor
Provide manpower and equipment to re-route local gas co-op pipeline to facilitate workplan
Prepare and implement traffic accommodation plan
Build alternate road from site to allow for local and heavy truck traffic to travel safely
Procure pilot trucks to assist in the daily safe transport of large heavy loads on narrow roads
Excavate and landfill 22,000m3 of impacted material
Secure clean fill from landowner and coordinate pipeline protection measures to haul fill to site
Backfill 18,000m3 of material sourced from landowner
Recontour site, replace soils and prepare for seeding. Revegetate site and install erosion control

Wellsite

Central Alberta Wellsite (Winter 2024/2025)

Dismantle and store all infrastructure and historical displays
Strip site and store all topsoil offsite
Install chain link fence around perimeter of site for public protection
Excavate and sort 18,000m3 of soil
Backfill all clean soil
Landfill 11,600m3 of impacted material
Import 11,600m3 of clean backfill, place and compact (including salvaged topsoil)
Clean up site and improve roads

Former Battery Site

Central Alberta (Winter 2023/2024)

Excavate, and sort 11,000m3 of hydrocarbon and salinity-impacted soils
Haul impacted material to the landfill
Cut and cap pipelines. Install pipeline plugs and tags.
Excavate, pull and haul pipe to local metal recycler
Excavate around pipelines and backfill
Import clean, local backfill, place and compact. Contour site.
Screen areas where gravel was mixed with topsoil.
Replace topsoil onsite
Paratill site

Southern Alberta Gas Plant

Southern Alberta

Oak Creek Earthworks Ltd decommissioned, backfilled and contoured the Acid Water Treatment Ponds associated with a sulphur block that was on site up until 2010.

Build large containment area for impacted materials
Dewater pond
Excavate/dredge sludge out of ponds and haul to containment area
Remove all chain link fence and recycle all reusable materials and dispose of waste
Remove pond liner, re-use a portion for a new containment area and dispose of the remainder
Excavate any sulphur impacts >4% by volume and stockpile
Remove all remaining infrastructure associated with former ponds and treatment system (concrete, cable, pilings) and recycle or dispose of materials
Backfill former pond areas using 75,000 tonne of fill provided by Oak Creek
Remove section of former rail line from sulphur transport, recycle steel, dispose of rail ties
Build road and turnaround to allow trucking of sulphur off site
Contour site to shed water

Alberta Gas Plant

Central Alberta (Fall 2021)

Spray out grass and weeds in multiple areas
Break up and haul large piles of downed trees to town yard for firewood, dispose of waste at landfill
Dewater multiple excavations from a previous earthworks program and backfill with material from onsite and imported sources
Disc then strip multiple areas on site and stockpile soil
Screen all topsoil piles to remove rock, metal and debris
Contour areas to fit with surrounding topography
Prepare sub-base for parking lots and contour areas for future soccer fields
Install culverts to facilitate water flow with new site contour
Replace screened topsoil on all areas contoured previously and seed
Install erosion control

Former Well Site

Central Alberta (Winter 2024-2025)

Strip site and excavate 10,600m3 of impacted soils and haul to landfill
Import 10,600m3 of clean fill, compact and contour site
Cut, cap and remove 2 pipelines from beneath access road
Remove 800m of access road and reclaim using salvaged sub soil and topsoil
Recycle pipe and haul salvaged gravel to landowner for reuse