New Canaan single job excavation bonds.
$175 flat.
For a single excavation job in a New Canaan street, the Town requires a $10,000 excavation bond filed with its Public Works office. Ours is $175 flat — the price you see is the price you pay. The bond issues the moment you pay — no credit review of any kind, not even a soft pull.
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Three steps. One sitting.
Permit bonds like this are the simplest thing in surety. Here is the entire process:
Apply online
Business details and an effective date. That is the application — no financials, no SSN or credit fields, no follow-up scavenger hunt.
Pay & e-sign
Permit bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
File with New Canaan Public Works
Your executed bond arrives by email, ready to file with the Town of New Canaan Public Works office for your single excavation job. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
The Town of New Canaan controls excavation in its public streets and rights-of-way through its Department of Public Works. For a single excavation job — rather than an annual permit — New Canaan conditions the work on a $10,000 surety bond tied to that job.
It is a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the Town of New Canaan (the obligee). The bond guarantees you will backfill, repave, and restore the street to the Town’s specification on that job, so New Canaan is not left paying to fix a trench you walked away from.
It is not insurance for you — if the Town makes a valid claim and the surety pays, you repay the surety. Contractors who restore their cut properly treat the bond as a permit formality, not a risk.
You need this bond if you are
One application, issued instantly.
These are the actual issuing fields — the application collects no credit information for this bond.
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$175 flat, no credit review, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.