Inspection, cleaning and maintenance of stormwater best management practices, from ponds and swales to filters and underground structures.
Hill Country storms over Spicewood tend to arrive in one hard burst after weeks of nothing, and when they do, every pond and swale on a lake or ranch property has to handle months of runoff in an afternoon. That is the kind of event that exposes a stormwater BMP system that has been coasting. We maintain those systems, from the forebay to the outlet, for the people who answer for them when the water does not drain the way it should.
Granite and limestone don't absorb water the way clay or loam does, so a lot of the rain that falls on a Spicewood property runs straight off the rock and into whatever basin or swale was built to catch it. We see the results in the same spots every time: a forebay choked with decomposed granite fines, a drawdown that used to take a day now taking a week, bare caliche slopes sliding into the pond after the first real storm, and cedar or mesquite seedlings taking hold on an embankment nobody walks. In older sections of Barton Creek Lakeside and Briarcliff, outlet structures built for a smaller storm are now the bottleneck for the whole system.
Call us and we walk the property, pond by pond and structure by structure, and tell you what is actually happening underground and under water, not just what is visible from the bank. From there we handle the pond, swale and basin upkeep, filter and separator cleaning, and underground structure maintenance on a schedule that fits your property, and we leave you with compliance-ready documentation for your board, your management company, or the engineer of record. You stay in front of it instead of explaining it after the next storm.
We're a local, family-built company that treats your Spicewood property like our own, tidy crews, clear pricing, and stormwater bmp maintenance that holds up to Burnet County conditions. Available as a one-time project or part of an ongoing plan.
We schedule a free on-site visit, usually within 48 hours of your call, and walk every pond, swale, or structure on the property with you or your management team. Because Spicewood properties often span several acres of rock and brush, we check access points and drainage paths on foot before we quote anything, so the number you get reflects the actual site, not a guess from a plan.
Most Hill Country basins need a full inspection and cleaning at least once or twice a year, but granite and limestone runoff silts up forebays faster than clay soils do, so a property with steep rock slopes above the pond may need more frequent checks. A sudden slow drawdown, standing water that was not there before, or visible sediment buildup after a storm are all signs it is due now, not on the calendar.
Yes, we schedule around your property's traffic, whether that means early mornings before a retail center opens or coordinating with an HOA office so residents know equipment will be on site. On gated lake and ranch properties in Barton Creek Lakeside or Spicewood Trails, we work directly with your management contact on gate codes and access windows so nobody is caught off guard.
Decomposed granite and limestone fines move fast in a hard rain and settle out in forebays and filters, so cleaning those structures is usually a bigger part of the job here than it would be on a clay-soil site. Thin, rocky topsoil also means bare slopes above a pond erode quickly and need attention before they become a sediment problem in the basin itself.
The number and size of structures on the property, how much sediment has built up since the last cleaning, and how accessible each pond or basin is all factor in. A remote ranch property with several ponds spread across acreage of rock terrain takes more time to reach and service than a single retention pond behind a retail center, and that shows up in the quote.
Free, no-pressure estimate from a local crew. Call (737) 404-9343 or request a quote online.
