Land Clearing
Wooded lots, overgrown acreage and future homesites cleared with our own dozer — trees and brush out, clean workable dirt left behind.
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Our land clearing in Port Neches, TX, takes a city lot from brush and vines down to bare dirt. Port Neches, ten miles southeast of Beaumont, was once known as Grigsby's Bluff. The Grigsby family set up a plantation and a boat landing on a bluff over the Neches River. Before the Civil War, Grigsby's Bluff was an important landing for Neches River traffic. Voters chose to incorporate the town in 1927, and it grew fast during and after World War II. We are based in Buna and have been in business since 1990.
After the lot clearing, we shape the ground so water runs off it. A new home needs a house pad, built up in layers of fill that is brought in. Rain needs a path to the street, and ditches and culverts give it one. The drive in from the street can be a gravel driveway. We set the price at a free on-site estimate, after we come look at your ground. For a water problem, the best time to look is right after a rain.
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For city streets, the city does, through its Street and Drainage Division. That division maintains the city's streets, ditches and rights-of-way, about 60 miles of streets in all. Port Neches is one of four cities inside Jefferson County Drainage District No. 7 (DD7). For street drainage issues, DD7 points people to the city they live in. In Port Neches, that is City of Port Neches Public Works.
So a culvert or any dirt work in a city street ditch starts with a call to Public Works. DD7 issues permits for a change of flow, and for utilities and other facilities on or across its own rights-of-way. Under DD7's 2019 rules, a single-family home on an individually owned lot outside a subdivision needs no DD7 approval. Keep dirt and brush out of the street drains, as city ordinances require.
Across the top of the ground, and along its natural path. A planned path matters here because the ground is low. By the district's own count, two thirds of DD7 lies below five feet above sea level. Rain adds up, too. NOAA's normal for the Port Arthur airport station is 62.13 inches of rain a year. The wettest month on that record is August, with 6.89 inches.
USDA defined the Beaumont series, a clay soil, from a site in Jefferson County. It runs 42 to 60 percent clay, and USDA rates it poorly drained. Water moves through it very slowly, so rain on ground like that has to run off over the surface. Our land grading gives the lot a steady fall and fills the low spots where water stands. Our guide covers Texas law on water crossing a lot line when the trouble comes from next door.
The dozer clears the lot and pushes up the house pad. It also grades the yard and shapes the drive. The excavator cuts or cleans a ditch back to a real grade, then sets a culvert where a drive crosses. On an overgrown lot or along a lot line, the tracked mulcher does the forestry mulching. It grinds brush and small trees in place and leaves the trees you point out.
Permits and plans stay with you or your builder, and we build the dirt to match. The city approves every subdivision of land, so ask City Hall before you divide a lot. We do not survey, engineer drainage, pour slabs, run utilities or tie into the storm sewer. Under the Texas one-call law, notice must go in no later than the 48th hour before digging starts. Weekends and legal holidays do not count.
Communities & areas we serve around Port Neches: the Neches River, Nederland, Groves, the State Highway 347 corridor, the FM 365 and FM 366 corridors.
Port Neches ZIP codes served: 77651.
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(409) 289-0802 Wooded lots, overgrown acreage and future homesites cleared with our own dozer — trees and brush out, clean workable dirt left behind.
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Yaupon, briar and underbrush cleaned out of lots, woods and fence lines — the growth goes, the trees you want stay.
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Brush and small trees ground into mulch right where they stand — no burn piles, no haul-off, and the topsoil stays put.
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House pads, barn pads, site prep and fill: dirt hauled, placed, shaped and packed so what you build on it stays put.
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Site dig-outs, soft-spot removal, pond and basin digging and cleanup work with our own excavator.
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Rough, rutted or washed-out ground graded smooth and sloped to drain — pastures, yards, building sites and everything between.
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Land to clear, a pad to build, brush that's won too many summers, or a pond you've been thinking about for years? Call or send the form and we'll come look at your ground with you and hand you a free estimate from the family that's worked this dirt since 1990.
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