I have recently been contacted by the contractor who won the bid on a project to expand the road that runs outside my lot. I live on about 5 acres in Virginia. Currently my front lawn area runs uphill about 15-20 feet across a large patch of 400x400 foot land. The contractor is interested in using my front lawn as a fill area to place around 25,000 cubic yards of fill dirt that they have to move from a few hundred yards up the road. In exchange for this they will completely re-level my whole lawn, reseed it, lime it, make sure the drainage is not affected. It would all be done to the same specifications as the county part of the project. This seems like a win/win to me... contractor gets to move dirt just down the road instead of miles away, and I get my lawn leveled and re-seeded with actual grass (it's all weeds now). They are also paying for a fill certification to ensure that the fill is done correctly if we ever are able to sell the land to a developer.
Is there any reason why this wouldn't be a good deal for me to do? It's going to take 6 months and we'll have trucks outside, but it would be nice to have a level yard at the end of it all. Any thoughts appreciated!