Pond Excavation and Pond Clean-Out in Tulsa, OK

Pond work around Tulsa

Ponds are acreage work. Around Tulsa that means the ground past the edge of the city, where the lots get bigger. Collinsville is a good example: a small town with acreage on every side, with barns, shops, ponds and pasture that has grown up.

Most pond calls are not new digs. They are a pond that has silted in, a dam that is seeping, or a spillway that has cut itself a new path. Justin comes out, looks at the pond and the dirt, and gives you a fixed number before anything starts.

New pond or clean-out

A new pond gets sited, cut, shaped and keyed in. Whether it holds water comes down to the soil. Some ground in this part of Oklahoma holds well. Some will not without clay work. He looks at the dirt before promising you a pond.

An old pond can usually be saved. A pond that has gone shallow and weedy is normally full of silt, not leaking. Digging the silt back out is far cheaper than starting over.

Dams, spillways and banks

A dam that seeps or a spillway that has cut out can be repaired. Banks get shaped so they hold. An approach gets left so you can get down to the water.

Where the spoil goes

The dirt that comes out has to go somewhere. It gets spread, used to build a pad or an approach, or shaped into the bank. It should not be left as a ring around the pond. If the spoil is going into a building pad, see dozer work and grading.

Before the machine shows up

Estimates are free and on site. Oklahoma811 gets called before anything is dug. Wet ground stops dirt work, so timing depends on the weather as well as what is already booked. If brush has to come off the bank or the dam first, that is land clearing and it gets quoted with the pond.