Dirt Work
Dirt work across San Antonio and about 50 miles around the city. We level and grade land, bring in fill dirt, build pads and fix low spots that hold water.
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A pond is a hole that has to hold water. Pond construction starts with what is under your site. Dig in the wrong ground and the water drains away. We dig stock tanks, ranch ponds and detention ponds across San Antonio and about 50 miles around the city.
Global Contractors LLC has run excavation and sitework jobs since 2006. The same excavators and dump trucks that handle excavation work in San Antonio shape a pond basin, build a dam and cut a spillway. Dirt that comes out of the hole gets used on your land or hauled off. Call (253) 606-9497 and we will come look at the site.
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Soil decides it. Texas A and M AgriLife Extension rates a pond site on the top 60 inches of ground. Soil that passes water faster than two inches an hour gets a severe seepage rating. Clay is what holds a pond. Loose sand and gravel lets it out the bottom.
The ground changes fast around here. North and west of San Antonio you hit limestone and thin soil, and fractured rock is hard to seal. East and south of the city the Blackland Prairie clay runs deep, which is good pond ground. South toward Pleasanton the surface is often sandy loam sitting over a clay subsoil.
That same Extension publication warns about a thin sand or gravel lens. One layer like that drains a basin even when the rest of the soil is tight. So we dig test holes before anybody prices the job. If the ground is too coarse, clay spread and compacted over the whole basin is the fix.
Stock tanks are the everyday pond out here. A landowner wants water for cattle, a place deer will come to, and something to fish. Most tanks sit in a low draw where runoff already collects. We shape the basin, build a dam across the low end and set the spillway.
The dam is the part that fails when it is built wrong. USDA pond design guidance calls for a cutoff trench along the centerline of the dam. It gets dug down into the tight layer below and carried up both ends. Clay backfill goes in there in thin layers and gets compacted as it comes up. Stumps, roots and loose grass stay out of the fill.
The spillway carries a storm around the dam so the water never tops it. USDA guidance says a well-built dam can still be lost in the first severe storm if the spillway is too small. Dirt from the basin usually stays on the property, worked into the bank or spread with grading and fill work.
A commercial site has to do something with its stormwater. A detention pond holds runoff and lets it back out slowly through an outlet. A retention pond keeps a pool in it year round. The engineer's plan and the local rules set which one you build and how big it has to be.
We build to the drawings and the grades on them. The basin gets cut, the slopes get shaped, and the outlet area is prepared for the pipe. A detention basin usually lands in the middle of a bigger job, so it runs alongside site preparation and the building pads.
Raw tracts need the brush off first. We clear the basin footprint, then start digging. If the ground is grown up in mesquite and huisache, land clearing is the first pass and the pond follows it.
Free estimates and site visits across San Antonio and about 50 miles around the city.
(253) 606-9497From the first call to the final grade, here is how it goes.
Call (253) 606-9497 and tell us what the site needs: a lot cleared, a house down, a pad built. We ask enough questions to know what machines the job takes.
We drive out and read the ground: access, slope, trees, utilities, what is standing and where the dirt can go. On a build we go through the plans with you.
The scope and the price go in writing, broken out so you can see each part of the job. Estimates are free, and so is the site visit.
Permits and utility locates come first where they apply, including the Texas 811 call before anyone digs. Then the excavators, the trucks and the mulcher go to work.
Spoils get hauled off or spread on site, and the ground is graded before we pull off. We go over the finished job with you while the equipment is still there.
Common questions about pond construction across San Antonio and about 50 miles around the city. If yours is not here, call and ask.
Dirt work across San Antonio and about 50 miles around the city. We level and grade land, bring in fill dirt, build pads and fix low spots that hold water.
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Land clearing services for lots, acreage and ranch land around San Antonio. We clear brush, mesquite, cedar, trees and stumps with excavators, skid steers and a forestry mulcher.
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Dump truck services across San Antonio and about 50 miles around the city. We haul spoils and debris off jobs and deliver fill dirt, caliche, base and gravel by the load.
Learn MoreGlobal Contractors has been on commercial and government job sites since 2006, from airport excavation to county and school projects. That background comes with us on a single driveway or a full development site.
Excavators with thumbs and demolition attachments, dump trucks, skid steers and a forestry mulcher. The machines and the trucks are ours, so one call covers the equipment the job takes.
Clearing, demolition, excavation, utility trenching, hauling and the finish grade run under one scope. That keeps the job on one schedule with one number to call.
Call and we come up from the Pleasanton yard to look at the job. The estimate is free and the quote reaches you in writing, with the scope spelled out.
Tell us where the property is and what needs to happen: a lot cleared, a slab out, a pad built. Call (253) 606-9497 or send the form, and we will line up a time to come look.
Tell us about the job. We will get right back to you.