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We already run machines in Brown County. Our 800 acre Chisme Solar clearing sits right here, which means mobilization to your tank is short and the crew knows exactly what this ground does.
Brown County averages around twenty seven inches of rain a year, which is little enough that a tank is not a convenience, it is the operating asset. This is Cross Timbers country running toward the western edge: sandy loam and red clay over sandstone and limestone, mesquite on everything that has been left alone, and a lake that belongs to somebody else.
Twenty seven inches does not leave room for a shallow tank. Water lost to evaporation off a wide flat bowl in a Brown County August is water your herd needed in October, and the tanks that fail here almost always failed by being dug too shallow and too broad.
The ground varies. Red clay stretches hold beautifully and run the published list clean. Sandier ground toward the Cross Timbers needs the cut to reach clay, or clay brought and keyed in. We know how this county behaves because we have moved a great deal of dirt in it.
Where a basin needs help the answers are a compacted clay core, bentonite worked in, or a liner. Each is priced the moment we can honestly price it, which on a questionable site can be once the basin is open. It never turns up quietly on a final invoice.
Our 800 acre Chisme Solar clearing project is in Brown County, wrapped to a fine mulch spec in 154 days. That is not a photo we borrowed, it is our machines on this ground. Mobilization to your place is short and the operators already know what the dirt does when it gets wet and when it gets hard.
Depth is the play here. Deep and narrow beats wide and shallow in a dry county every time: less surface for the sun, more water still there in September. We will tell you to go past six feet whenever the budget reaches, and we will show you what it costs on the calculator rather than just asserting it.
A Brown County tank runs in a set order, and because we already work this county the schedule is usually short.
Text or call with pictures of the spot and what you have in mind. Because the price list is published, we can give you an honest range on the first call, then put a boot on the ground to firm it up.
Your first number comes over the phone, from having moved a great deal of dirt in this county rather than from a form. Photos and a pin usually get you a real range the same day. Once you approve the estimate we come walk it, reading the draw, the catchment feeding it, herd access, spillway routing, and what mesquite has to go ahead of the machines. Anything that moves the number gets said on that walk.
You get one page with real numbers on it. Excavation, dam construction, spillway, transport, and any flagged contingency, all in plain terms. No allowances that balloon later, no asterisks doing heavy lifting.
Mobilization is usually measured in weeks, not months. The dozer and excavator arrive on a lowboy, we stage at the site, and from that morning the build runs continuously until the pond is done.
The dig itself runs two to five days on most builds. Topsoil is saved for the banks, the core trench goes in first, and the dam is built the slow, right way, in compacted layers rather than one loose push. You will see the pond take shape daily.
We do not leave until you have walked the finished pond with us. The dam, the spillway, the bank grades, the topsoil dressing, all of it inspected against what was promised, and corrected on the spot if it falls short.
Twenty seven inches a year means we will not promise you a fill date, and anyone who does is selling. What we control is the catchment: we size the watershed feeding your tank so it collects real runoff rather than waiting on rain that lands in the bowl. Built deep, it holds what it catches instead of handing it back to the sun.
Published, not hidden behind a form. Prices and build times are based on 6 feet of depth at center with a 4:1 bank.
| Pond Size | Starting Price at 6 ft depth, 4:1 bank | Build Time |
|---|---|---|
| 1/4 acre | from $12,300 | 2 to 3 days |
| 1/2 acre | from $19,200 | 3 to 4 days |
| 3/4 acre | from $23,300 | 4 to 5 days |
| 1 acre | from $27,000 | 5 to 6 days |
| 1 1/4 acre | from $30,400 | 6 to 7 days |
| 1 1/2 acre | from $33,800 | 7 to 8 days |
| 1 3/4 acre | from $36,800 | 8 to 9 days |
| 2 acre | from $39,500 | 9 to 10 days |
Prices are based on 6 feet of depth at center with a 4:1 bank. In Brown County the variable is sealing on the sandier ground, priced as its own written line the moment we know. Red clay sites usually run the list clean. Machine transport is short because we already work this county.
Size it, tell us what to do with the dirt, then draw the pond right on a photo of your land. Your estimate comes back by email, along with a preview of the finished water.
We would rather explain the number before you sign than after. This is the whole anatomy of a pond quote.
The number includes the pond, whole and finished: design against the watershed, staking, topsoil stripped and banked, core trench, compacted-lift dam, cut spillway, finish-graded slopes, and dressed banks. Getting the iron to your gate and the closing walkthrough are in there too.
Sealing is the Brown County variable and it depends which ground you are on. Red clay stretches usually run the published list clean. Sandier Cross Timbers ground may need the basin cored or bentonite worked in, priced as its own written line the moment we know. Mesquite clearing rides on the same quote at published day rates.
Real ponds, real day counts, photographed on site.
Pond expansion, Lampasas
Stock tank holding water, Marion
Half acre pond, LampasasFull process, statewide services, and the build standard: our Texas pond construction page.
It is the single most useful thing we can tell you out here. Two tanks holding the same water, one wide and shallow and one deep and tight, will not be the same tank in September. Evaporation takes the wide one first. Our pricing starts at six feet at center and we push for eight or more on Brown County ground.
Lake Brownwood is a municipal supply reservoir and it rises and falls on decisions nobody on the bank gets to make. A tank on your own place is water you control, which in a county this dry is the entire point.
Nearly every Brown County site needs mesquite and brush off the basin and dam footprint before a track hoe is useful, and out here the clearing is often the bigger half. We do both. One mobilization, one schedule, one bill.
Brown County has a lot of old tanks that silted in or leaked because the dam was pushed up rather than keyed in. Rebuilding one properly is frequently cheaper than starting over, and we will tell you honestly which your place needs.
In a county this dry, water is the limit on what a pasture can run. A tank that holds through September is the difference between grazing your own ground and hauling water to it.
Lake Brownwood answers to a municipal supply schedule. Your tank answers to you. In a drought that distinction stops being philosophical.
Water is the strongest single improvement on a hunting property out here, because there is so little of it. Sited well a tank concentrates deer and turkey and supports a wildlife management valuation.
Brown County buyers look at water first. A deep tank holding in a dry September says more about a property than anything else on it.
When the dirt work is done you can keep the same crew on the finish work. These four add-ons turn a new basin into a finished pond.
Bare banks on sandy Cross Timbers ground move the first time it storms, so we seed and stabilize what we disturb with a mix suited to grazing rather than a lawn.
Aeration matters more in a hot dry county than a wet one. Moving water stays cooler, holds oxygen, and resists the bloom that turns a good tank green by July. Conduit roughed in while the basin is open is far cheaper than trenching later.
Hardened access points keep stock from breaking the bank down and silting in the tank you just paid for. Planned before the basin closes, they cost very little.
Stocking waits until the tank is holding and settled. We will tell you what survives a Brown County summer rather than what sounds good.
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Learn these six and you can grade any pond quote you are handed, including ours.
The height of dam above full pool, sized to absorb a storm surge before water tops the structure. Dry country still floods, and topping a dam is how you lose it.
Every acre of ground that sheds rain toward your pond. It, not the hole, decides how fast you get water.
The water level at the bottom of the spillway, the highest the pond is designed to hold day to day.
Where the dam dirt comes from. On a well designed pond it is the basin itself, so every yard dug does double duty.
One acre of water a foot deep, about 326,000 gallons. The unit that decides whether a stock pond needs a state permit.
Saving the living top layer before the dig and dressing it back over the banks after, so grass takes the first season.
A quarter acre tank starts at $12,300, a half acre at $19,200, and a full acre at $27,000, based on six feet of depth at center with a 4:1 bank. Minimum job is $8,000. Sealing on the sandier ground is the Brown County variable and it is priced the moment we know.
Yes, at scale. Our 800 acre Chisme Solar clearing project is here, cleared to a fine mulch spec in 154 days. We already run machines in this county, so mobilization to your tank is short.
Deeper than the old ones. Twenty seven inches of rain a year and a hot August mean evaporation is the enemy, so deep and tight beats wide and shallow. Pricing starts at six feet at center and we recommend eight or more wherever the budget allows.
Red clay stretches usually hold on their own and run the list clean. Sandier Cross Timbers ground needs the cut to reach clay, or clay brought and keyed in. We know this county well enough to give you a straight expectation on the phone, and the number the moment we know for certain.
Regularly, and it is often the better spend. We seal the basin, rebuild the dam with a proper key trench and compaction in lifts, and fix what was leaking. If it is not worth saving we say so.
Yes, and out here that is usually the first real work. Mesquite and brush have to come off the basin and dam footprint before anything digs. Same quote, same crew, published day rates.
Two to three days for a quarter acre and nine to ten for two acres. Rock adds days and we name that up front rather than after.
Yes. Photos, an aerial, or a pin get most Brown County quotes a real range the same day, and we are already working in this county so the schedule is usually short too.
Send photos or a pin on the draw you are considering and we will come back with a range, usually the same day. We already have machines in this county, so mobilization is short and the schedule is usually sooner than you expect.