Removal of trash, branches, sediment and unwanted vegetation that cut into a detention pond's drainage and storage capacity.
Universal City's detention ponds mostly date back to when Forest Crest, Northview, and Olympia Hills were built out as established northeast-side neighborhoods, and a lot of those basins have been running on their original grading and outlet structures ever since. Corral Bros cleans these systems for the property managers, HOA boards, and community associations who inherited them.
The ground here is thin clay sitting on bedrock, close enough to Randolph AFB that you can feel the flight pattern, and it does not drain the way sandier soil does. Water sits longer in the forebay after a storm, sediment settles out fast once the rain lets up, and bare slopes that were seeded once at construction tend to erode before anything else takes hold. Give it a few years and you get volunteer trees working their roots into an embankment, or an outlet structure half blocked by leaf litter and branches that never got cleared.
Working with us on this looks like a site walk first, where we look at the forebay, the slopes, and the outlet with whoever is responsible for the property, whether that is a board member, a management company, or a GC handing the site off to an association. We remove the trash, branches, sediment, and unwanted vegetation that are cutting into the pond's storage and drainage capacity, and we haul it all away. No guesswork, no upsell, just the basin cleared back out.
We're a local, family-built company that treats your Universal City property like our own, tidy crews, clear pricing, and detention pond cleaning that holds up to Bexar County conditions. Available as a one-time project or part of an ongoing plan.
We walk the basin with you or whoever manages the property, whether that is a board member, a management company rep, or a GC closing out a site. We look at the forebay, the outlet structure, the slopes, and how much sediment and vegetation have built up. You get a free, no-obligation estimate, and we can usually get out to the site within 48 hours of your call.
Most of the ponds we see around Forest Crest, Northview, and Olympia Hills need attention once or twice a year, sometimes more if the property has mature trees dropping branches and leaf litter into the basin. A good rule of thumb is to look at the outlet and forebay after any heavy rain event. If water is standing longer than it used to, that is your trigger to call.
We schedule around your property's traffic, not the other way around. For apartment and retail sites we coordinate timing so parking and access are not disrupted, and for HOA common areas near family housing we keep equipment staged away from walking paths. We will confirm a work window with you before crews show up.
Thin clay over bedrock near Randolph does not drain fast, so basins here tend to hold water longer and collect more silt at the inlet than sandier sites farther south. When a hard rain hits after a dry stretch, that sediment moves fast and settles in the forebay, and volunteer trees take root on embankments faster than most boards expect. That combination is what we are usually called out to clear.
The main drivers are how much sediment has built up, how overgrown the slopes and embankment are, and how much brush or trash has to be hauled off site. A pond that gets checked annually costs less to clean than one that has gone three or four years with volunteer trees and silted inlets. Access for equipment and how far debris has to travel to a disposal point also factor in.
Free, no-pressure estimate from a local crew. Call (737) 404-9343 or request a quote online.
