Drainage trouble in Lapoint usually comes in surges. A fast spring melt, a summer thunderstorm, or a neighbor’s irrigation can push more water across a property in an afternoon than it sees the rest of the month. When the ground can’t soak it up, it runs along the surface and settles against foundations, in shop doorways, and at the low end of the corral.
Our drainage solutions start with figuring out where that water comes from and where it can safely go. Then we pick the simplest fix that works, whether that’s regrading, a swale, a French drain, a culvert, or a cleaned out ditch. We build it to handle the big surges, not just the average day, and we make sure the water ends up somewhere it won’t cause the next problem.
We know how snowmelt, irrigation, and ditches overgrown with Russian olive push water across rural Lapoint properties.
We bring excavators, compaction gear, and laser levels to set swales and drain pipe at a true, steady fall.
If a simple regrade will do the job, we'll tell you instead of selling you pipe you don't need.
We haul off spoils and cleared brush, restore topsoil, and leave drain outlets tidy and easy to find later.
Before we pick up a shovel, we want to know where the water comes from. On a Lapoint property, the usual suspects are a roof dumping next to the foundation, a lane that funnels runoff toward the garage, a neighbor’s field or yard draining onto yours, or backfill that settled after a build. Most wet spots have one main source and a couple of helpers.
We walk the property with you and ask when the water shows up: during snowmelt, after a storm, or when irrigation is running. Photos from the last bad day help a lot. Once the source is clear, the fix usually gets smaller and simpler. Sometimes it’s as basic as extending a downspout line and reshaping ten feet of ground.
Most jobs use one or two of these, sized to the amount of water and the room available:
Often the least expensive step is the first one. Regrading the yard or lot fixes a surprising number of wet foundations without any pipe at all.
Lapoint sits at 5,568 feet, high enough that winter snow can pile up and then leave in a hurry when spring warms. Frozen ground underneath can’t absorb the melt, so it all moves across the surface at once. Summer brings the other extreme: a short, heavy thunderstorm on dry, hard soil that sheds water almost like pavement.
A drainage system here has to handle those short surges. That means sizing swales and pipe for the big events, keeping inlets clear, and giving water an outlet that won’t freeze shut or wash out.
A ditch only drains if water can move through it. Along ditches and waterways in this part of the Basin, Russian olive and tamarisk move in fast, trap silt, and slowly turn a working channel into a thicket. Kochia and other weeds pile up behind them. When a ditch backs up, the water finds another path, often across a yard or into a barn.
We clear the growth, pull out silt and debris, and reshape the ditch so it flows again. For heavier stands, brush clearing for overgrown ditch banks takes out the woody growth before we reshape the channel.
Farm buildings collect water in all the wrong places. Corrals turn to mud at the gate where animals gather, barn aisles flood when runoff comes off the roof, and shop doors face whichever way the lane happens to slope. These are some of the most common drainage calls on rural property.
The fixes are usually simple: raise and slope the ground at the entry, catch roof water before it hits the corral, and cut a swale or bury a drain line to carry it off. When a pipe needs to run any distance, trenching for the drain line goes in at a steady fall so water keeps moving.
A drain that looks good dry doesn’t prove much. Before we finish, we run water through the system with a hose or water truck when possible, watch where it goes, and check that outlets discharge where we planned. If something pools, we fix it while the equipment is still on site.
We also show you what to keep an eye on, like clearing leaves from inlets in fall and checking outlets after the first big melt. Call (801) 669-0512 and we’ll come find out where the water on your Lapoint property is coming from.
We trace the water with you, checking roofs, lanes, ditches, and neighboring ground to find where the problem starts.
You get a free quote laying out the drainage fix we recommend, why it fits your site, and what the work involves.
We call Blue Stakes, then regrade, cut swales, or install drains and culverts, setting everything to a steady, measured fall.
We run water through the new system with you, confirm it flows where planned, and point out what to maintain.
