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Pond Construction in Sour Lake, TX

Serving Sour Lake · Hardin County

One Family Crew for Sour Lake Land and Dirt

Sour Lake is the old-timer of Hardin County — oil-boom history downtown (Texaco got its start here) and cattle-and-acreage country in every direction. West of town the Thicket loosens into pasture land, and pasture land means the jobs we grew up on: stock ponds, cleared fields, solid pads and drives that hold up when the gumbo gets wet.

From Buna we work the whole Sour Lake, China and Nome country: pond construction, land clearing, brush work, pads and fill, grading and drainage. Family crew, our own iron, est. 1999.

What We Do in Sour Lake

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Pond country, done properly

The clay-heavy ground west of Sour Lake is honest pond country — it holds water the way the sandier land east of us won't. We dig stock tanks that keep cattle watered through a dry August, fishing ponds shaped with real structure, and retention basins that give storm water somewhere to go besides the barn.

A pond here is a system: depth matched to its job, banks sloped to hold and mow, overflow routed on purpose, and the spoil dirt turned into pads and fill instead of a heap. We site it by reading your dirt first — and we'll tell you straight if a spot won't hold.

Pasture, pads and the wet-clay reality

Gumbo clay gives with one hand and takes with the other: it holds a pond beautifully and turns a driveway into grease. Working it takes timing and judgment — grading when the moisture is right, drives built with crown and base instead of gravel-on-mud, and ditches that actually fall somewhere.

We keep the pasture side working too: fields cleaned of brush, fence lines opened, and ground smoothed back to mowable. From Pinewood Estates out through China and Nome, the walk-through and the estimate are free.

Communities & areas we serve around Sour Lake: Pinewood Estates, China & Nome, the Highway 105 corridor.

Sour Lake ZIP codes served: 77659.

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Our Services in Sour Lake

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Land Clearing in Buna, TX

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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Brush Clearing in Buna, TX

Brush Clearing

Yaupon, briar and underbrush cleaned out of lots, woods and fence lines — the growth goes, the trees you want stay.

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Dirt Work in Buna, TX

Dirt Work

House pads, barn pads, gravel driveways and fill — dirt hauled, placed, shaped and packed so what you build on it stays put.

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Excavation in Buna, TX

Excavation

Site digging, ditch and drainage work, culvert setting and dig-outs — our own excavator, run by the people whose name is on it.

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Grading & Leveling in Buna, TX

Grading & Leveling

Rough, rutted or washed-out ground graded smooth and sloped to drain — pastures, yards, building sites and everything between.

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Sour Lake FAQ

Questions From Sour Lake Property Owners

A few of the questions we hear most around Sour Lake. Don't see yours? Call us — we're happy to help.

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Will my land near Sour Lake hold a pond?
A lot of it will — the clay ground on this side of the county is some of the best pond dirt around. We read the soil and the lay of your land first and tell you honestly what it will support and where the pond wants to sit. The look is free.
What does a stock pond cost around Sour Lake?
Size, depth and what we do with the spoil set the number. A watering tank and a two-acre fishing pond are very different digs, so we quote after walking your site — free, in writing, no surprises.
Do you do regular dirt work in Sour Lake too?
All of it — pads, drives, fill, grading, drainage and clearing across western Hardin County. One crew and one estimate for the whole job. Call (409) 289-0802.
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