Pond & Lake Services in Houston, TX

Yes. Daniel Dean digs, shapes, and builds ponds and lakes with his own equipment across the Greater Houston area — we are not a broker sending the job to someone else. That includes new construction, expansion or reshaping of an existing pond, and repair. We start with the area shown on the plan or discussed on site, strip and stockpile the topsoil where it can be saved, and shape the pond bottom, slopes, and dam to the depths and limits agreed on.

Pond construction is priced per project, not off a flat rate, because the number is driven by how much material has to move and what the soil around your property will do. Surface area and depth, whether the native soil will hold water or clay has to be brought in, where the excavated dirt goes, and how the equipment gets to the site are what actually swing the number. We walk the property and put a firm number in writing before anything starts, at no charge.

Dredging and desilting are priced by the cubic yard of accumulated silt, sediment, or muck actually removed, not by the surface area of the pond. A pond that has never been cleaned out moves a lot more material than a light maintenance skim, and access for the equipment and where the removed material goes both move the number as well. We assess the sediment depth on site and give you a firm number before work starts, at no charge.

A pond build starts with digging within the area shown on the plan or discussed on site, and stripping and stockpiling the topsoil off to the side where it can be saved and reused. The excavated dirt is used to build the dam, a pad, or raised mounds as called for on your site, and the pond bottom, slopes, and dam are shaped to the depths and limits agreed on. Commercial jobs typically add a soils review — clay content, PI, and sometimes bore samples — plus watershed and elevation checks before the design is finalized, so the pond has a better chance of holding water as intended.

Whether a pond holds water comes down to the soil it is dug into. We look at the clay content and soil PI on site, and on larger or commercial jobs that can mean bore samples, to determine whether the native ground will seal on its own or whether a compacted clay liner is needed. Where a liner is called for, we place and compact good clay material to build it. We do not warranty that a pond will hold water, because soil is a natural material and no contractor can honestly guarantee it — that is the real answer, not a sales line, and it is why the soil review happens before the dig.

That depends on the property, not a rule of thumb — the land available, the watershed feeding it, elevations, where the spoil can go, and access for equipment all set the practical ceiling on size before soil even enters the picture. There is no substitute for walking the site. Tell us roughly how large a pond you're thinking, and we'll tell you what your property can actually support.

Yes. Beyond new construction and repair, we handle the maintenance work that keeps an existing pond working — desilting and muck removal, aquatic vegetation removal, and aeration, fountain, and pump installation and service. Vegetation removal is mechanical rather than chemical, and some regrowth from wind and water movement afterward is normal and not something any contractor prevents.

We build, repair, and maintain ponds and lakes across the Greater Houston area, covering Harris, Montgomery, Waller, Washington, and Fort Bend counties.