Detention and retention pond construction that controls stormwater and meets site requirements.
In Leander, a detention pond is digging through rocky clay and limestone outcrops before it is digging through dirt. That ground does not drain the way engineers on paper sometimes assume, and it shapes everything about how a basin is built, how it ages, and how fast it fails if nobody is watching it.
Around Crystal Falls, Travisso, and Bryson, we see the same patterns over and over. New development means a lot of exposed soil moving into basins during hard Hill Country rain, which shows up as a silted forebay and a pond that draws down slower than it should. Older sections get bare, eroding slopes or volunteer trees working their roots into an embankment that was never meant to hold anything but grass. A blocked outlet structure is often the quiet cause behind a pond that stays full for days after everyone else's yard has dried out.
For the person who answers for this property, whether that is a board, a management company, or a developer closing out a site, working with Corral Bros means we build or rebuild to the plan and to what the property engineer specified, not to a guess. We handle the excavation, grading, inlet and outlet work, and slope stabilization as one job, and we give you a straight estimate before anything starts. Call (737) 404-9343 and we will usually have someone on site within 48 hours.
We're a local, family-built company that treats your Leander property like our own, tidy crews, clear pricing, and detention ponds that holds up to Williamson County conditions. Available as a one-time project or part of an ongoing plan.
A detention pond temporarily holds stormwater runoff and releases it slowly, so a developed site doesn't flood downstream neighbors or overwhelm storm drains. Most Central Texas commercial sites, subdivisions and larger developments are required to have detention as part of their drainage permit.
A detention pond drains down to empty between storms and is dry most of the time, while a retention pond holds a permanent pool of water. We build and maintain both, choosing the right one based on your site's soils, drainage requirements and available space.
We walk the basin with you, check the forebay, outlet structure, and slopes, and look at how water is actually moving through the site versus how it was designed to move. From there we give a free, no-obligation estimate, usually scheduled within 48 hours of your call. If the property has an engineer of record, we will work from those plans rather than guess at intent.
Most of the ponds we see in Crystal Falls, Travisso, and Bryson need attention every two to four years, sooner if the pond is still catching sediment from active construction nearby. A pond that is drawing down slowly after storms, growing volunteer trees on the embankment, or showing a silted-in forebay is already past due, regardless of the calendar.
We schedule around your property's traffic, not the other way around. Equipment access is usually limited to the pond easement or a maintenance access road, and we coordinate timing with the property manager or board so leasing, deliveries, and resident parking are not affected. Most of the work stays well away from occupied buildings and lots.
Rocky clay and shallow limestone outcrops around Leander mean basins here often hold water longer than the design intended, since the native soil does not drain the way a sandier site would. Add in sudden, heavy Hill Country downpours and you get flashy inflow that moves sediment fast, which is why forebays and inlet structures here tend to need attention sooner than people expect.
The biggest factors are how much sediment and vegetation have to come out, how much of the slope needs regrading or stabilizing, and whether outlet or outfall structures need rebuilding versus clearing. A basin serving a newer Leander subdivision still shedding construction silt will typically cost more to bring back into shape than an established pond that has just been neglected on its mowing and erosion control.
Free, no-pressure estimate from a local crew. Call (737) 404-9343 or request a quote online.
