Drainage & Dry Creek BedsCherryville, NC & seven surrounding counties
Water has to go somewhere, so we give it a route. Ground shaped to fall away from the house, a stone-lined dry creek bed along the path the water already takes, a swale that carries runoff around a yard instead of through it. Most of what we get called out to is somebody else’s drainage, and most of it is fixed with dirt and stone.
Drainage & Dry Creek Beds
Done Properly
Water has to go somewhere, so we give it a route. Ground shaped to fall away from the house, a stone-lined dry creek bed along the path the water already takes, a swale that carries runoff around a yard instead of through it. Most of what we get called out to is somebody else’s drainage, and most of it is fixed with dirt and stone.
- Stone-lined dry creek beds
- River rock beds and borders
- Yard and lot regrading so water leaves
- Swales cut and shaped to carry runoff
- Ditching, crowning and culverts on drives
- Rip-rap channels and stone outlets
Every job starts the same way: Rodney comes out, walks it with you, and tells you what he would do and what it will cost. If the job needs something we do not do, he will say that too.
Drainage runs through nearly everything else we are called out for, which is why it sits alongside the rest of what Little Acres Grading does out of Cherryville.
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Our own jobs, photographed on site across the seven counties we cover.
Drainage & Dry Creek Beds Across Our Area
Wet yards and washed-out drives — they turn up everywhere the clay does.
Other Services You
Might Need on the Same Job
Excavation & Grading
Site prep, lot grading, building pads, cut and fill
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Land Clearing
Trees, brush, stumps and debris
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Demolition
Outbuildings, slabs, mobile homes & old concrete
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Brush Hogging & Heavy Brush Cutting
Overgrown fields, pasture & heavy growth
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Gravel Driveways
New drives, rebuilds, crown & drainage
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Concrete Driveways
Driveways, parking pads, walks & aprons
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Shoreline Restoration
Rip-rap shoreline repair, rebuilds and bank work
Learn more →Emergency & Storm Cleanup
Downed trees, washouts & blocked access
Learn more →Seven Counties, One Crew
Every town we cover, by county. Pick yours and see what the ground does there.
Drainage & Dry Creek Beds — Common Questions
What people ask us most about this service.
It comes down to how long the run is, how much dirt has to move before any stone goes down, what size and type of rock goes on top, and how far we have to carry material to reach it. A short bed in an open back yard and a long one cut through a slope with no gate access are not the same job. We walk it, measure the run, and leave you a written price that does not move.
Yes. We cover seven counties from our base in Cherryville — Gaston, Lincoln, Catawba, Burke, Caldwell, Cleveland and Rutherford — and there is no travel charge anywhere in that area.
It depends on the season and the weather — wet ground stops dirt work. We will give you a realistic window with the estimate rather than a date we cannot hold.
Yes, $1 million in liability coverage. We can send a certificate to you or your builder before we start.
A dry creek bed is a shallow stone-lined channel cut along the path water already takes across a property, sized to carry what actually runs and dressed with river rock so it looks like it belongs there. It sits dry most of the year and runs when it rains. We use one where water crosses a yard and burying it would be the wrong answer — a channel you can see is one you can clear out, and it will not silt up somewhere you cannot get to.
Different stone for different water. River rock is rounded, and it is what goes in a dry creek bed or a rock bed you have to look at every day. Rip-rap is angular quarry stone, and angular is what locks together and stays put where water moves with force behind it — a ditch line, a channel, a lake bank. We use river rock where the water is slow and the look matters, and rip-rap where it does not.
Usually one of three things. The ground falls toward the house instead of away from it. The roof is putting more water into one spot than that spot can take. Or there is a tight layer under the grass that will not let it soak away. We walk it and tell you which one you have, because the fix is different for each and the wrong one costs you twice.
Get a Free Drainage & Dry Creek Beds Estimate
Tell us where the job is and what you are trying to get done.
- Rodney looks at the job himself
- A written price, not a range that moves
- No charge for the visit, no pressure after