Sugar Creek country. Water here leaves for the Wabash, and the ground near the creek behaves nothing like the till plain.
Thorntown is in the Sugar Creek basin with Lebanon, draining to the Wabash rather than the White River. It is a small town on and near a real creek corridor, and that corridor is what makes the drainage work here specific: near the creek you are dealing with alluvium, a higher water table and outlet elevations that are constrained by the creek itself rather than by your own grade.
It is worth saying plainly what Sugar Creek is and is not here. The rock-walled gorges people picture on Sugar Creek are in Montgomery and Parke counties, not Boone. Around Thorntown it is a valley corridor through farm and small-town ground, and the practical effect is on water table and outlet options rather than on dramatic terrain.
Thorntown is not an MS4 and has no municipal stormwater program, so like Jamestown the fixes are private and have to stand on their own. Culverts, drives, long runs, footing drains on older houses and pad work for outbuildings make up most of it, along with the erosion control that a creek corridor asks for where a property runs down to the water.
Sugar Creek basin, draining to the Wabash. Same basin as Lebanon.
Creek corridor near Sugar Creek with alluvium and a higher water table, till plain away from it.
Older small town stock with rural property around it.
Not an MS4. No municipal stormwater program.
We do all nine services everywhere we work. These are the ones the ground in Thorntown asks for first.
Our specialty. We find where the water is actually coming from, then build the system that moves it away for good.
See the work →Walls built on a proper base with drainage behind them, plus rip rap and slope stabilization.
See the work →Site clearing, grading, building pads and trenching for residential, commercial and new construction.
See the work →Start with a call or a text to (317) 503-6782. Tell us what is going on in your own words. Water pools by the back door. The old driveway has to go. The yard slopes toward the house. You do not need the technical terms and you do not need a plan drawn up. If it is something we handle we will set a time to come look. If it is not, we will tell you that and point you somewhere better if we can.
Casey comes out and looks at the actual site with you. This part matters more in dirt work than in almost any other trade. Two back yards that sound identical on the phone can be completely different once you see the slope, the access, the soil and where the water wants to go. Walking it together means you can point at the problem and we can talk through options on the spot, including options that cost you less than what you had in mind.
After the walkthrough we put the estimate together and email it to you, with the scope of work written out so you can see what is and is not included. It is free and there is no pressure attached. Take your time with it and compare it if you want to. Honest pricing only works if you have room to check it.
Free, in writing, with no obligation to move forward. A deposit reserves your spot on the schedule once you approve it.
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Usually rip rap sized correctly for the water's velocity, sometimes with geotextile beneath it, and sometimes a change further up so less water is concentrated at that point. What does not work is dumping stone that is too small, which simply moves downstream in the next high water.
It can. Near the corridor the water table is closer and your outlet elevation is set by the creek rather than by your yard, so a system that would fall to daylight elsewhere may need a different design here.
Yes. Out here a drive that keeps failing is usually a grade and drainage problem rather than a gravel shortage, and adding stone to ground that holds water is money spent twice.
Yes. Thorntown is in Boone County, one of the four counties we work. We are based in Brownsburg, and Thorntown is regular territory.
There is no honest way to answer that without seeing the property, because the price is driven by where the water is coming from, how far it has to be carried and what it has to cross. The estimate is free, Casey walks it with you, and you get the scope in writing by email.
Tell us what is going on in your own words. You do not need the technical terms, and you do not need a plan drawn up.
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