Cleaning, mowing, grading, vegetation control, debris removal and erosion repair for drainage swales, channels, ditches and culverts.
Swale, channel, and culvert maintenance keeps water moving the way it was designed to move, and in Bastrop that design gets tested hard. The Lost Pines sandy soils drain quickly when they're healthy, but a lot of this county is still recovering from wildfire, and recovering ground does not hold a slope or filter runoff the way established pine forest does. Add riverfront grading near the Colorado and you get systems that need more attention than the plan sheet assumed.
Walk a basin or ditch line in Tahitian Village or Pine Forest and the signs are usually the same. Sandy soil washes out fast on a bare slope, so you get a cut bank or a slumping embankment where vegetation never filled back in after the fire. Pine needle litter and leaf drop load up culvert mouths and inlets faster than open ground would. Forebays silt in, outlets get crowded with volunteer saplings, and a channel that used to drain clean now holds water for a day or two after a storm.
Working with Corral Bros on this scope means a site walk, a clear scope of work, and a crew that treats your drainage system as infrastructure, not landscaping. We clean and reshape what needs it, clear culverts, and handle the erosion repair and vegetation control that keeps the next storm from undoing the work. You get a free, no-obligation estimate, usually scheduled within 48 hours of your call, and we're licensed and insured for the commercial and HOA properties that depend on this ground doing its job.
We're a local, family-built company that treats your Bastrop property like our own, tidy crews, clear pricing, and swale, channel & culvert maintenance that holds up to Bastrop County conditions. Available as a one-time project or part of an ongoing plan.
We walk the swale, channel, or culvert run with whoever manages the property, usually within 48 hours of your call, and look at flow lines, outlet condition, and any bare or eroded slopes. You get a straightforward scope and a price before anything is scheduled, no obligation to move forward. For Tahitian Village and riverfront lots we also check what's growing on the embankments, since that drives part of the cost.
Most Bastrop properties need a cleaning and mowing pass once or twice a year, with culvert and outlet checks after any heavy rain event. Pine Forest and Colony properties with mature tree cover often need an extra vegetation pass because needle litter and leaf drop load up inlets faster than open ground. A silted forebay or standing water after a storm are both signs it's time to call.
We schedule around your property's traffic, whether that's resident parking at a Colony subdivision or customer access at a retail center, and we coordinate timing with your manager ahead of the work. Channel and ditch work stays contained to the drainage easement itself. We communicate with your board or management company so nobody is caught off guard by equipment on site.
The Lost Pines sandy soils drain fast but erode easily once vegetation cover is thin, which shows up as cut banks, sloughing slopes, and sediment collecting at culvert mouths and forebays. On post-wildfire and recovering lots, bare ground between replanted pines means more runoff reaching the swale with less to slow it down, so erosion repair and grading come up more often here than on older, fully vegetated sites.
Length of run, how much sediment or vegetation has built up, and whether culverts are clear or need clearing all factor in. Erosion repair and grading add cost depending on how much slope needs reshaping and how exposed it is. A property with volunteer trees established on an embankment, which we see on older Tahitian Village lots, takes more time than routine mowing and vegetation control.
Free, no-pressure estimate from a local crew. Call (737) 404-9343 or request a quote online.
