River launches and summer traffic in Hollis
Canoe and tube traffic on the Saco pulls thousands of people through Hollis every warm weekend. Hollis launch sites and take-outs need units at the gravel parking areas rather than down on the sandbars. A Hollis river set gets an extra pump on Monday after a hot holiday weekend. Because the Hollis access roads are sand, the truck stays on the graded surface at all times. Hollis outfitters book their seasonal units in May and keep them until the water cools. Spring high water on the Hollis river bank floods the low launches well into May.
Acreage and woodlot work around Hollis
Most Hollis lots are large, wooded and reached by a long gravel drive off a town road. A Hollis house build keeps one standard unit near the road end where a truck can turn. Hollis well and septic crews dig in sand and clay and want a handwashing station with the set. Logging and land clearing in the Hollis woodlots moves the landing every few weeks. A Hollis unit travels with that crew and gets pumped wherever the landing has ended up. Ledge along the Hollis ridges means the pad often sits on broken rock.
Storm cleanup on the Hollis back roads
Ice and wind take trees down across the Hollis gravel roads most winters and after summer microbursts. Hollis crews work long stretches of road with nowhere to stop, so a staging unit matters. We can usually get a unit into Hollis within a day of the call. Hollis utility crews rebuilding line take a set that moves along the right of way. Posted weight limits on the Hollis roads hold heavy trucks off from late March into May.