PIERCE
LAND
CLEARING
Williamson County is turning farm sections into five and ten acre places faster than anywhere in Texas, and nearly every one of those deeds comes with the same thought: this place needs water. We build it, from stock tanks to two acre lakes.
The Balcones fault runs practically through town. Which side of it your acreage sits on decides how your pond gets built.
Out toward Andice and the lake, Georgetown ground turns to shallow soil over Edwards limestone. Ponds work, but rock is the variable we price for from the start, and the honest options run from shifting the site to catching a clay pocket, to bentonite when the seal needs help.
If we do hit ledge, hammer time is billed by the day and flagged in the quote up front, never discovered on your invoice.
East toward Jonah, Weir, and Granger the county turns to deep blackland clay, some of the most forgiving pond ground in Texas. It digs fast, seals naturally, and builds run right down the published price list.
Most east side Georgetown ponds need nothing but good design and compaction to hold for decades.
Most Williamson County pond clients are first-time dirt work buyers. Here is the whole arc, exactly as it runs on a Georgetown build.
Send photos of the spot, a rough size, and your town. You get a ballpark from the published list the same day, and if it sounds right we set a time to walk the property. No pressure loop, no form-and-wait.
On a Georgetown site the walk answers one question first: which side of the pond line are you on? West of I-35 the Edwards ledge sits close to the surface, and a foot of soil over solid rock changes the whole plan, so we raise it before you hear a depth. East of town, on the blackland, the walk is about finding the draw and confirming the clay. Either way you get a straight answer standing on the spot, including when the answer is move it or shrink it.
A real number in machine days: what the dig costs, what the dam costs, what happens if we hit rock, and what the clearing adds if the site is brushed up. The price on paper is the price, and any rock contingency is spelled out instead of buried.
A lowboy shows up with the dozer and excavator, usually within a few weeks of a signed quote. We need a gate the iron fits through and a spot for the trailer, and we handle the rest.
Two to five working days for most ponds. Topsoil gets stripped and saved, the core trench gets cut, the dam goes up in compacted lifts, and the basin takes shape a bench at a time. You are welcome on site every day of it, at a safe distance from the swing radius.
Before the machines load, we walk the pond with you: dam, spillway, slopes, and the topsoil dressed back over the banks. If it does not match what was quoted, that is the moment we make it right.
A new pond around Georgetown fills on the same storms that feed the San Gabriel, which means spring does most of the work. Grass the dam right away, watch the spillway through the first May gully washers, and let the watershed do its job. Sized right, most Williamson County ponds catch the bulk of their water in one good storm season.
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 |
Rock near the San Gabriel forks and west of town is the Georgetown variable: granite or solid limestone means hammer work billed by the day, and often we can shift the pond and miss it entirely. East side clay builds rarely see surprises.
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.
No surprise line items. Here is how the number breaks down on every quote we write.
Siting and design against your watershed, staking, topsoil stripped and saved, the core trench, the dam built in compacted lifts, the spillway cut and shaped, slopes finished to mow, and topsoil dressed back over the banks. Machine transport is in the quote, and so is the walkthrough before we leave.
West of I-35, rock hammer time if the dig finds solid Edwards ledge, billed by the day and flagged as a contingency before we start. On the blackland east of town the clay usually seals itself and bentonite almost never comes up. Cedar and brush clearing when the site needs it, at our published land clearing day rates, and long spoil hauls in the rare case dirt has to leave the property.
Real ponds, real day counts, photographed on site.
Liberty Hill, 20 min west: 2 days
Burnet, 40 min northwest: 4 days
Elgin, 30 min southeast: 5 days
Pflugerville, 20 min south
The finished product: water that staysFull process, statewide services, and the build standard: our Texas pond construction page.
Half our Williamson County calls are first time land owners: the tract just closed, the builder has not broken ground, and the family wants the pond in before the house. That order is exactly right. Building the pond first means the machines never have to work around a lawn, the spoil can shape the homesite pad, and the pond is catching water while the house is still on paper.
Both forks of the San Gabriel pull drainage through this county, and anything that looks like a creek on the county map can carry floodplain rules. We check your draw against the maps, because a pond placed fifty yards uphill of a regulated channel is usually just as good and years simpler.
Williamson County wells and utility taps are getting more expensive by the year, which is why the smart acreage owners here treat a pond as infrastructure: stock water, fire protection draw, irrigation reserve, and property value in one hole. Build it deep enough to beat the evaporation, 8 feet or better, and it is the cheapest water storage you will ever own.
Georgetown averages around 36 inches of rain a year, but it arrives in bursts, and a pond here fills on storm runoff, not on drizzle. A basin matched to its watershed can catch most of its water in a single wet spring. One dug too big for the ground draining into it will sit half empty long enough to make you doubt the builder. That is why sizing against the watershed is the first design decision we make, not the last.
July and August will pull feet of water off an unshaded Williamson County pond, and shallow water gives it back fastest. Eight feet or more at center keeps a cool refuge for fish, keeps stock water through the dry months, and starves the weeds that take over warm shallows. When someone asks us for a wide, shallow pond, we talk them out of it, because around here that is a cattail flat by the second summer.
The first job after we load the machines is yours: get grass on the dam and banks before the first hard rain locks in any gullies. Once the pond holds water for a few months, stock from the bottom of the food chain up, fathead minnows and bluegill first, bass the following season. Follow that order and a Georgetown pond becomes a fishery. Rush the bass and they eat the pantry bare before it ever stocks itself.
A new dam settles a little in its first year, and that is expected. Watch the spillway carry its first few storms, reseed any bare spots before they rill, and never let a tree volunteer on the dam, because roots are how tight dams start leaking two decades later. A dam built with a real core trench and compacted lifts asks for almost nothing else.
Most Georgetown pond sites share the property with live oaks worth protecting, and cedar that is not. We route haul paths outside the drip lines, keep the iron off the root zones, and because we are a Georgetown clearing crew before we are anything else, the brush comes out clean, mulched or grubbed, without wounding a tree you are keeping.
The build does not have to stop when the water shows up. These come with the same one-crew, one-call approach as the pond itself.
Blackland banks rill fast when they sit bare, so the dam gets seeded and matted the week the dirt work ends, not next season. Vegetation is the cheapest structural upgrade a new Georgetown dam can get, and having the same crew handle it means it happens before the first big rain instead of after.
A bottom diffuser or fountain keeps oxygen moving through the column when August flattens everything. Healthier fish, less algae, no stale-water smell drifting toward the porch. On Georgetown acreage a fountain also earns its keep in plain looks, especially on ponds visible from the house.
The best dock decisions happen while the basin is still dry. Tell us on the site walk and we will set the grade and placement dock-ready with the machines already on site, fixed or floating, so the build you finish this year does not need rework next year.
When the water settles we coordinate stocking in the order that builds a fishery: forage first, bluegill and minnows, then bass a season behind them. Plenty of Georgetown clients fish Lake Georgetown; the point of a pond is catching the same evening fight forty steps from the back door.
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Six terms you will hear on the site walk, and what they actually mean for your water.
A keyway cut below grade under the dam and packed with clay, so water cannot travel beneath the structure.
The dam built up in thin layers, each packed tight by the machine before the next goes on. The opposite of a pushed up pile.
The armored low route storm water takes around the dam instead of over it. The difference between a rain event and a rebuild.
Four feet of run for every foot of drop. Gentler banks are safer and easier to mow; steeper banks get more depth from less dirt.
The dry dam height above full pool, the safety margin that keeps a big storm inside the pond.
Every acre that sheds rain toward your pond. On the forks of the San Gabriel it is the watershed, not the hole, that decides how fast you get water.
Pond pages for the towns around Georgetown, and the land clearing crews already working this county every week.
Off the published list: quarter acre from $12,300, half acre from $19,200, on up to two acres from $39,500 at the 6 foot, 4:1 baseline. East side blackland usually runs the list clean; west of I-35 rock is the variable, and any hammer work is flagged as a contingency.
Yes. The play is finding the soil pocket, and western Williamson County has more of them than people think. When the seal needs help we use bentonite, and when the ledge is shallow we tell you before a machine loads, along with what moving the site a hundred feet would save.
Pond first, almost every time. The machines work free of landscaping, spoil can build up your homesite pad, and the pond spends the construction year catching rain. Tell your builder we said so.
On rain, usually a storm season. A pond sized to its watershed around here can catch most of its water in one wet spring. One sized to a wish sits empty, which is why watershed math is part of every design we stake.
Most agricultural and acreage ponds in Williamson County need none. Anything touching a mapped floodplain on the San Gabriel forks or a named creek can need review, and we flag that during the site walk, not after.
Yes. Our clearing crews work Georgetown every week, so cedar, brush, and grubbing happen in the same mobilization as the dig. One crew, one bill.
Send photos of the spot and a rough size. East of I-35, odds are you are on prime clay. West side, rock is the wildcard and we will say so plainly before you commit.