For the flat, caliche-bound and playa-adjacent lots where neither gravity nor the ground can move water — we pump it out.
Tell us what your yard is doing and we’ll come take a look — no charge, no pressure.
On the flat South Plains, a huge number of lots have no downhill to send water to — and over caliche, the water can’t soak away either. When gravity and the ground both fail you, a sump pump does the job neither can: it collects water and lifts it out to a safe discharge.
In hilly or sandy places, sump pumps are a niche tool. In Lubbock they’re often the answer, because the defining local conditions — dead-flat ground and an impervious caliche subgrade — remove both natural drainage paths at once. A lot that sits low, near a playa, or simply has nowhere lower to drain to needs its water moved mechanically. A company that only installs gravity drains will leave those yards wet; a sump is the piece they skip.
A pump has a moving part, so we set ours up to be maintained — an accessible basin, a discharge you can see and clear, and a design you can service. We walk you through checking it: pour a bucket in, confirm it kicks on and pushes water out, keep the basin and outlet clear. A pump nobody can reach is a pump nobody maintains.
There’s a cruel overlap on the plains: the same hard thunderstorm that overwhelms a flat lot is the one most likely to knock the power out — right when the sump is needed most. Where a pump is protecting something that matters, we plan for that with a battery backup that keeps it running through an outage, and a check valve so water in the discharge line doesn’t fall back into the basin and cycle the pump needlessly. On the highest-stakes lots, a second pump adds redundancy so one failure doesn’t mean a flood. We’d rather build that resilience in than explain its absence after a storm.
Free on-site drainage assessments across Lubbock and the South Plains. We’ll tell you what’s actually causing the water — caliche, a flat lot, a nearby playa — and what it takes to fix it.