Erosion Control & Drainage
Erosion Control Contractor in Ohio
Erosion control and drainage work is about deciding where water goes before water decides for itself. That means cutting swales and ditches, establishing positive drainage away from structures, stabilizing outlets, and installing the silt fence and inlet protection a disturbed site needs while it is open.
What It Is
The work, plainly described
Erosion control and drainage work is about deciding where water goes before water decides for itself. That means cutting swales and ditches, establishing positive drainage away from structures, stabilizing outlets, and installing the silt fence and inlet protection a disturbed site needs while it is open.
On a residential property it usually starts as a complaint: standing water against the foundation, a lawn that will not dry out, topsoil moving down a slope every spring. On a commercial site it starts as a requirement, because any disturbance of an acre or more generally triggers an Ohio EPA construction stormwater permit and a sediment and erosion control plan.
Northern Ohio makes this harder than it needs to be. Lake-plain clay drains slowly, the ravines feeding the Rocky River, Black River, and Vermilion River cut fast when they are fed uncontrolled runoff, and lake-effect precipitation arrives in volume. A drainage plan that works in dry weather is not a drainage plan.
Who It's For
Who calls us for this
What's Involved
How the job actually runs
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Read the water
We walk the site and work out where water enters, where it collects, and where it can legally and physically be sent. Guessing at this stage is what produces expensive rework.
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Cut the conveyance
Swales, ditches, and regraded surfaces move runoff along a defined path instead of a random one, at a slope that carries water without scouring the channel.
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Stabilize the outlet
Every discharge point gets treated. An unprotected outlet moves the erosion problem downstream rather than solving it, and that is often onto a neighbor.
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Protect during construction
Silt fence, inlet protection, and stabilized construction entrances go in on active sites and stay maintained until the ground is established.
Equipment Used
The machines that do this work
We own our fleet. That is why we can commit to a date and hold it.
Stop losing ground every spring
Show us where the water sits and where it goes. Photos taken during a heavy rain are worth more to us than anything else you can send.