Pond Building and Land Clearing in Danville, VA

Farm Ponds for Pittsylvania County

Pittsylvania County is one of the largest counties in Virginia by land area, with cattle farms, timber and old tobacco ground. A farm pond can water livestock through a dry summer, and a fishing pond can give the family a place to fish.

Clearing and Mulching Overgrown Ground

For fields and fence lines that have grown up, forestry mulching clears brush without burn piles or stump holes. For a new home site or crop ground, land clearing and grading get it ready.

Virginia Permits

Virginia runs its own erosion control, stormwater and dam safety programs. Pittsylvania County or the City of Danville can tell you what local review applies before the work starts.

Ground and Water Around Danville

The land around Danville is the same rolling Piedmont country as the North Carolina side of the line: red and brown clay, old tobacco fields gone to pine, and creek bottoms feeding the Dan River to the south and the Banister River farther north in Pittsylvania County. Clay ground like this often holds water well, but it varies from one hillside to the next, so we test the soil where the dam and basin will go before we put a price on a pond.

For a job this far from Walnut Cove, the first step is usually a phone call and a few photos. If the project looks like a fit, we set a day to walk the land, then give you a written plan and an estimate. Long, low draws and wet bottoms are common here, and if water is the problem rather than the goal, our drainage work may be the better fix.