Catch basins, channel drains and leveling to clear the standing water flat, caliche-bound lots collect.
Tell us what your yard is doing and we’ll come take a look — no charge, no pressure.
When water stands on the surface — sheeting across a flat backyard, pooling in the low corner, turning one spot into a shallow pond after every storm — the fix is a surface drainage system that catches the water and carries it somewhere it can actually go.
On the South Plains, surface water is a special problem because the two escape routes water normally has are both closed: it can’t soak in (caliche), and it can’t run off (no slope). So it just sits on top. Surface drainage here is about actively collecting that standing water and conveying it — by built-in fall or by pump — to a discharge off the lot.
On flat ground, small elevation differences decide everything, so we shoot grades rather than eyeball them — an inch of fall you can’t see by looking is the difference between a yard that drains and one that doesn’t. We map where water collects, where it can be sent, and how to connect the two.
Surface drainage in Lubbock lives or dies on grades most people can’t see. On a lot with real slope you can eyeball where water goes; on dead-flat ground, a one-inch difference over thirty feet decides whether a catch basin collects water or sits in a dry spot while the puddle forms somewhere else. That’s why we shoot grades with a level before we place anything — we’re designing to actual elevations, then building the small, deliberate falls that make a flat yard move water to where we can catch it. Guesswork on flat ground is how you end up with an expensive drain in the wrong place.
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.