Cleaning, mowing, grading, vegetation control, debris removal and erosion repair for drainage swales, channels, ditches and culverts.
New Braunfels sits where Hill Country limestone starts breaking toward the river, and that edge shows up in every drainage swale, channel, and culvert in the area. From Gruene to Vintage Oaks to River Chase, Corral Bros maintains the ditches, channels, and culverts that keep stormwater moving off commercial sites, apartment and retail properties, and HOA common areas before a storm turns a minor blockage into standing water against a building or parking lot.
The ground here does not behave like it does ten miles east. Rocky Hill Country edge soils resist water in a drought, then shed it fast once rain finally comes, scouring channels and undercutting culvert outlets. Riverfront sand near Gruene and River Chase moves and slumps under its own weight, burying inlets and filling forebays faster than many boards expect. We regularly find bare, eroding slopes on newer cut-and-fill lots, volunteer trees rooted into older embankments, and culverts choked with sediment that was never meant to collect there in the first place.
Working with Corral Bros on this scope is straightforward. You call or request a free on-site estimate, we walk the swale, channel, or culvert system with you, and we tell you what we see, not just what you asked about. If a culvert is undersized for what the site now drains, or a channel needs grading alongside the property engineer's plan rather than a quick mow, we say so. Then we schedule the cleaning, vegetation control, grading, or erosion repair and get it done without turning your property into a weeks-long project.
We're a local, family-built company that treats your New Braunfels property like our own, tidy crews, clear pricing, and swale, channel & culvert maintenance that holds up to Comal County conditions. Available as a one-time project or part of an ongoing plan.
We walk the swale, channel, or culvert run with you or your maintenance contact and look at inlets, outlets, slopes, and any standing water. You get a free, no-obligation estimate based on what we actually find, usually scheduled within 48 hours of your call. For associations with multiple drainage easements or a Gruene-area lot with river access, we will walk the full run, not just the trouble spot someone reported.
Most commercial sites and HOAs around New Braunfels need a cleaning and inspection pass once or twice a year, with an extra check after a heavy rain event off the Hill Country edge. Properties near Vintage Oaks with newer cut-and-fill grading often need closer attention the first few years, since slopes are still settling and bare soil erodes faster until grass fills in.
Yes, we schedule around occupied buildings, resident traffic, and parking lot use, and we coordinate timing with property management or the board ahead of the work. Channel and culvert work can usually happen without closing full drive aisles or resident lots. For River Chase or riverfront properties, we also plan around high water or soft ground near the bank so equipment stays clear of the river edge.
Rocky Hill Country edge soils hold less water and erode in channels once vegetation thins out, while riverfront sand near Gruene shifts and slumps on banks and culvert outlets. Add in intense, short-duration storms typical of this area, and a swale that looked fine in spring can have a silted forebay, a scoured outlet, or a blocked culvert by fall. We work the ground conditions you actually have, not a generic maintenance schedule.
Length and number of channels or culverts, how overgrown or silted the system is, slope steepness, and access all factor in. A short, mowed swale costs less to maintain than a long rocky channel with volunteer trees on the embankment or a culvert buried under years of sediment. Erosion repair and grading add time and material beyond a basic cleaning and mowing visit, so the estimate reflects the actual condition on-site.
Free, no-pressure estimate from a local crew. Call (737) 404-9343 or request a quote online.
