Drainage and erosion control
French drains, swales, area drains and snow-melt routing on lots where the water has nowhere to go but your foundation.
- Price
- Quoted per site Projects from about $2,500
- Season
- May–Oct
- Status
- Booking in October
What's different about this job
Most mountain drainage failures are not rain. They are four feet of snowpack releasing over ten days in March into a yard that was graded for summer. We size for melt volume and route it past the structure.
What is included
- French drains, area drains and catch basins
- Swales and surface regrading
- Downspout tie-ins and daylight outlets
- Dry creek beds that carry real melt volume
- Erosion control and slope stabilization planting
Size for melt, not rain
The design event up here is four feet of snowpack releasing over a week in March, not a summer thunderstorm. Systems sized for rainfall are undersized by a wide margin.
Where it goes
Every drain needs an outlet. Onto the neighbour’s lot is not an outlet. We find a legal daylight point or build one.
Where we do most of this work
Recent water, drainage & lighting work
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Tell us the address. We will tell you what it needs.
A written scope, a real price, and a straight answer about whether this season still has room for it.