Mark's Arkansas Land Clearing Service drains wet land: it digs drainage ditches, shapes swales, sets culverts, and fills low spots that hold water, statewide from three Google listings, rated 5.0 on Google.
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We read the 1-to-3-star Google reviews of 88 Arkansas clearing, tree, and dirt-work companies, and 172 of them were about the work itself. Water that still stood, ruts, a broken culvert, a price that grew, and a phone nobody answered all came up. Each answer here is a promise the person running your job carries out.
2 of 172 reviews: the drainage was worse after the work
Before we quote, we tell you what the ground will look like the day we leave. We walk the site with you before we call the job done.
9 of 172 reviews: ruts and a torn-up yard after the machines
If the ground is too wet to work without rutting, we tell you and reschedule. Any ruts we make are smoothed before we leave.
21 of 172 reviews: damage the crew wouldn't own
If we damage anything (a fence, a gate, a line, a culvert), we tell you before we leave that day, and the fix goes in writing.
12 of 172 reviews: the price changed with nothing in writing
You get a written quote before any work. It lists every charge, travel included. The price changes only if you approve the change in writing first.
15 of 172 reviews: no firm date, only "next week"
Your quote comes with a start week. If the weather moves it, we call you.
61 of 172 reviews: the crew stopped answering
Every call or text gets a call back the same working day, from the person running your job.
What Arkansas landowners ask Google when water sits where it shouldn't. Each answer starts with the answer.
Give the water a path off the yard. Find where it comes from and where it can leave, then grade the ground, cut a swale, or open a ditch to carry it there. Mark's Arkansas Land Clearing Service walks the wet ground with you first, and you get a written quote before any work.
Fill the low spot or give it an outlet. A shallow dip can be filled and graded so rain runs past it, and a wetter hollow needs a swale or a ditch to carry the water out. If the ground is too wet to work without rutting, Mark's Arkansas Land Clearing Service tells you and reschedules.
Grade the ground so it falls away from the foundation. The International Residential Code, section R401.3, asks for a fall of at least 6 inches in the first 10 feet, or a swale or drain where that slope won't fit. Mark's Arkansas Land Clearing Service does the grading and the swale work.
It depends on the size and the place. Arkansas's construction stormwater permit, ARR150000, starts at 1 acre disturbed, and grading in a mapped flood zone needs a floodplain development permit first. On the first visit, Mark's Arkansas Land Clearing Service tells you which rules may touch your job and who handles each.
Mark's Arkansas Land Clearing Service is fully licensed and insured. We carry liability insurance and send the certificate on request.
We have the equipment for any land clearing or earth-moving job. Clearing a brushy ditch line, digging it out, and grading the ground that feeds it stays with one crew. The estimate is free, and our lines are open 24/7.
We work statewide from three Google listings: Hindsville, Greenbrier, and Hot Springs. The crew comes to your land.
Six steps, in order, and what you see at each one.
Every call or text gets a call back the same working day, from the person running your job. If we can't take your job, we say so on the first call.
You show us where the water stands and where it runs in a hard rain. Before we quote, we tell you what the ground will look like the day we leave.
You get a written quote before any work. It lists every charge, travel included. Your quote comes with a start week.
We call the day before, and again when the crew pulls in. Before the machine starts, we walk and flag the boundaries and anything you want saved.
If the ground is too wet to work without rutting, we tell you and reschedule. Any ruts we make are smoothed before we leave.
We walk the site with you before we call the job done. Final payment is due after the walkthrough. Every payment gets a receipt.
Drainage on a lot or a pasture comes down to five kinds of dirt work, and we do all five on Arkansas land.
A hollow that stays wet for days after a rain gets filled and graded so water runs past it, or gets an outlet to a swale or ditch. Reshaping a whole yard or field is grading and land leveling.
New ditches cut along a field edge or a property line, and old ones dug back out where silt and brush have filled them in. A ditch line grown up in trees starts with land clearing.
A swale is a shallow, grassed channel. Shaped around a pad, it turns runoff aside before it reaches the building. The pad itself is site prep and dirtwork.
A drive or a field crossing over a ditch needs a culvert so the water keeps moving under it. We set culverts for new drives and dig out both ends of one that silt has choked.
Water that runs down a gravel road instead of beside it cuts gullies. We shape the road and the ditches beside it so the water leaves the gravel. New roads are site prep and dirtwork.
All three move dirt, and a wet lot often needs more than one. Here is what each job works on and what it leaves behind.
Drainage work leaves ground that moves water off instead of holding it. Three parts decide how that looks on your land, and we go over each one on the first walk.
If we have to leave before the job is finished, you get the return date before the crew leaves.
If we can't keep an appointment, we call you before it.
Every review on our three Google listings is five stars.
We had hired them to do some forestry mulching around Conway. They did a superb job and the crew completed the job on time. Thank you!
They were quick to get back with us, and did an excellent job.
A great job they did on my farm.
I will recommend it to everyone and my family
On the first visit we tell you which Arkansas rules may touch your job (burn bans, the 1-acre stormwater permit, septic permits) and who handles each.
Each region page lists its towns and the line nearest you. All three of our lines reach the same crew.
Benton, Washington, Madison, and Carroll counties
Pulaski, Faulkner, Saline, Lonoke, Perry, Conway, and Grant counties
Crawford, Sebastian, Franklin, Logan, Johnson, Scott, Pope, and Yell counties
Boone, Marion, Newton, Searcy, Baxter, Stone, Izard, Fulton, Sharp, Van Buren, and Cleburne counties
Garland, Montgomery, Hot Spring, Clark, Pike, and Polk counties
Randolph, Lawrence, Clay, Greene, Craighead, Mississippi, and Poinsett counties
Independence, Jackson, White, and Woodruff counties
Crittenden, Cross, St. Francis, Lee, Phillips, Monroe, Prairie, and Arkansas counties
Miller, Hempstead, Little River, Sevier, Howard, Lafayette, and Nevada counties
Union, Columbia, Ouachita, Calhoun, Dallas, Bradley, and Cleveland counties
Jefferson, Lincoln, Drew, Ashley, Chicot, and Desha counties
Every Arkansas town with its own page, and the line nearest each one
The rest of what landowners ask before the first ditch gets dug.
Read the guidesThere are surface drains and underground drains. Surface drains are graded slopes, swales, ditches, and culverts that move water across the top of the ground. Underground drains include French drains, drain tile, and dry wells. Mark's Arkansas Land Clearing Service does the surface earthwork.
Surface drainage is the main alternative: regrade the ground so it sheds water, or cut a swale that carries the water off before it soaks in. Both are dirt work, and Mark's Arkansas Land Clearing Service has the equipment for any land clearing or earth-moving job.
Whenever the ground is dry enough to work without rutting. Mark's Arkansas Land Clearing Service checks the ground before the machine starts. If it's too wet, we tell you and reschedule, and any ruts we make are smoothed before we leave.
Some do, and so do dirt-work crews with grading equipment. Mark's Arkansas Land Clearing Service grades yards, lots, and pasture, and carries the job on into ditches, swales, and culverts when the water needs somewhere to go. Your quote comes with a start week.
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