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Excavator regrading a pond bank in Fluvanna County, Virginia

Family owned since 1978

Pond construction

Farm ponds and stock ponds. A pond is a dam, a spillway and the right soil holding water — and if any one of those three is wrong, you've dug a very expensive low spot.

  • Serving Central Virginia since 1978
  • Virginia Class A Contractor #2705017933
  • Licensed & insured
  • Free estimates

Siting and soil

A pond needs a watershed big enough to fill it and soil tight enough to hold it. We'll look at the ground and tell you honestly whether the spot you have in mind will hold water, before anybody spends money finding out the hard way.

Building it

Core trench, dam built in compacted lifts, principal and emergency spillways sized for the drainage above, and the banks shaped and seeded so they don't erode into the water you just made.

Repairing an existing pond

Leaking dams, failed spillways, and ponds silted in to the point of being a mudflat. Often fixable.

Excavator regrading a pond bank in Fluvanna County, Virginia
Call (434) 296-2805