Ongoing detention pond maintenance that keeps basins clean, flowing and inspection-ready.
Walk a detention basin in Lakeway after a dry spell and you will usually find the forebay half full of silt washed down from the hillside above it, cattails or Johnson grass creeping past the normal pool line, and an outlet structure partly packed with leaves and gravel. That is the starting point for most of our detention pond maintenance work in Lakeway, from The Hills down through Rough Hollow and Flintrock to the shoreline communities above Lake Travis.
The ground here is thin soil over limestone, and it sheds water fast. Runoff hits these basins hard and quick instead of soaking in, so sediment moves fast too, piling up in the forebay and burying the first few feet of the pond. Steep embankments built into the hillside above Lake Travis are prone to bare, eroded slopes where grass never took, and we regularly find volunteer trees rooted into dams and emergency spillways, which is exactly where you do not want roots. Older golf-course ponds slow-drain for days after a storm once the outlet gets choked.
For the property manager, HOA board or community association handling this, working with Corral Bros means one team doing the sediment removal, mowing and vegetation control, structure clearing, and erosion regrading as one ongoing scope instead of three separate vendors. We work to the site plan and alongside your engineer where the design calls for it, keep the basin inspection-ready, and give you a straight answer about what we found and what it will take to fix it.
We're a local, family-built company that treats your Lakeway property like our own, tidy crews, clear pricing, and detention pond maintenance that holds up to Travis County conditions. Available as a one-time project or part of an ongoing plan.
Most detention ponds need maintenance at least a few times a year, plus after major storms, mowing and vegetation control regularly, and sediment removal, erosion repair and structure clearing as they build up. Many jurisdictions also require periodic inspections, which we can document.
A neglected detention pond fills with sediment and overgrowth, loses capacity, clogs at the outlet, erodes, and can fail an inspection or stop draining, leading to flooding and code violations. Regular maintenance keeps it functioning and compliant, and it's far cheaper than a rebuild.
We walk the basin with you, check the forebay, the embankments and the outlet structure, and note where sediment or vegetation has built up. In Rough Hollow and Flintrock that often means checking access points through HOA common area too. The on-site estimate is free and we usually get out within 48 hours of your call. You get a straightforward scope and price before anything is scheduled.
Most basins on the limestone slopes around Lakeway need a full sediment and vegetation pass once or twice a year, with inlet and outlet checks after any heavy rain event off Lake Travis. Ponds below newer construction in The Hills tend to silt in faster the first few years. A slow drawdown after storms or standing water past a day or two is the signal it is time to look again.
We schedule around clubhouse events, golf cart paths and resident traffic, and we stage equipment away from parking and common areas whenever we can. Most basin work does not require closing roads or lots. If your board or management company has blackout dates or preferred access routes, we build the work around them.
Thin soil over limestone sheds water fast, so basins around Lake Travis take hard, short bursts of runoff rather than slow soaking rain. That pushes silt into the forebay quickly and erodes bare slopes on steep embankments if they are not holding vegetation. We watch for volunteer trees taking root on dams and outlet structures packed with debris after storms, since both are common on this terrain.
Access is a big one, since some basins at Rough Hollow or Flintrock sit behind gated areas or down steep limestone slopes that slow equipment and crews down. The amount of accumulated sediment, how overgrown the embankment has gotten, and whether erosion repair or regrading is needed all factor in too. We price it after the site walk so the scope matches what is actually in the basin.
Free, no-pressure estimate from a local crew. Call (737) 404-9343 or request a quote online.
