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RLS Land Solutions Excavation & Dirt Sales · Needville, TX
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Dirt Work & Grading in Needville, TX

Dirt Work & Grading · Needville, TX

Grading that moves water off your land

RLS Land Solutions does dirt work and grading out of Needville in Fort Bend County. This is flat prairie country, and after a hard rain the water sits for days. Most grading work around here is drainage work at heart. We cut the high ground down, build the low ground up and pitch the surface toward an outfall. Our smallest excavators weigh 50,000 pounds, and a fleet of tandem dump trucks runs behind them. That is the size of machinery it takes to regrade acres of land in one go.

The Comparetto family has run this business for 15 years. Most of that time the work came from word of mouth and repeat customers. We are built for volume: whole property regrades, ranch drainage and commercial rough grading. Our minimum project runs about $10,000, so this is acreage work rather than backyard leveling. We have graded utility scale solar sites and moved dirt on a data center job near Blessing. When a job has to move, we will run three shifts and keep dirt going around the clock.

What We Handle

  • Whole property regrades on acreage and ranch ground
  • Cut and fill grading that sets drainage and fall
  • Land leveling for pasture, hay ground and open fields
  • Lot grading for builders and developers
  • Rough grading for commercial and industrial sites
  • Drainage correction where water stands after a storm
  • Low ground built up with fill from our own pits
  • Fill spread and compacted in lifts, then finish graded

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Why this ground holds water

Fort Bend, Brazoria and Wharton counties sit on flat coastal prairie. There is very little natural fall, so rain has nowhere to run. Water pools in the low spots and stays until it soaks in or dries off. Landowners here call us about the same problem over and over: standing water. It drowns pasture, kills grass and turns a driveway into a rut. Grade is the fix. Land that drains has fall built into it, usually a slope you can barely see. Even a few inches of fall over a hundred feet keeps water moving.

We start by finding where the water wants to go. Sometimes there is an outfall already, like a roadside ditch, a creek or a bayou. Sometimes we have to cut one and carry it across the property. From there we shape the ground so every low area drains toward that point. That can mean cutting swales, crowning a field or building up a low corner with fill. We check the fall as we go so the slope holds across a long run. The goal is water that keeps moving after a storm instead of sitting on your land.

How a regrade gets done

Every job starts with a look at the whole property. A wet spot is usually a symptom of grade somewhere uphill. We check elevations to see where the high and low points sit. Then we plan the cuts and the fills. Cutting a high area gives us material to move into a low one, which saves hauling. When a property does not have enough material of its own, we bring it in from our pits. We own two sand and dirt pits in southeast Fort Bend County. That keeps material cost and truck time under our control.

Fill goes down in lifts, which means layers of six to twelve inches at a time. Each lift gets spread and compacted before the next one goes on top. Dirt dumped in one deep pile will settle later and leave a low spot right back where you started. Once the fill is up to elevation, we make a finish pass to smooth the surface and true the slope. Large excavators do the cutting and loading, and our tandem dump trucks move the material. On a big regrade that can be hundreds of loads over several days.

The size of work we take on

Our minimum project is about $10,000. We are set up for acres, hundreds of truckloads and jobs that run for days. A small yard leveling job costs more to mobilize our equipment than the work is worth to you. Ranch owners bring us in to level pasture and pull water off their hay ground. Builders and developers use us for lot grading and rough grading before construction starts. Commercial sites call when the dirt volume is past what a small contractor can move. Homeowners with real acreage land in the same range.

We are open around the clock, and on volume work that matters. When a deadline is tight, we will run three shifts and keep dirt moving all night. Weather sets the pace more than anything, so a dry stretch is worth long hours. Grading rarely shows up alone on a property. The same trip often includes land clearing, a pond, a set of ranch roads or a building pad. We handle all of it with the same equipment and the same trucks. That keeps the schedule tight and the dirt moving between tasks.

Tandem dump truck crossing a graded dirt site Tandem dump truck dumping fill dirt on a wooded site

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What You Can Expect

How a Job With RLS Runs

From the first look at the ground to the last pass of the grade, here is exactly how it goes.

1

Look at the Land

We meet you at the property and read the job off the ground itself: what is growing, where water sits, how trucks and excavators get in. Big dirt work prices off what is really out there.

2

Firm Quote

You get a free quote with a real number and a real plan: what gets dug or cleared, how many loads move, where the dirt comes from or goes. It holds unless the scope changes.

3

Move the Dirt

The equipment shows up when we said. Excavators dig, trucks run in rotation, and on deadline jobs we run shifts around the clock until the volume is moved.

4

Finish to Grade

The last pass matters as much as the first load. Pads compacted and holding elevation, ponds shaped and ready for water, ground graded so it drains. We look at the finished work with you before we leave.

FAQ

Dirt Work & Grading Questions, Answered

Common questions about dirt work & grading across Needville & Southwest of Houston. Don't see yours? Give us a call — we're happy to help.

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What does dirt work and grading cost?
It depends on how much dirt moves and how far it travels. In the Houston area, a large machine with an operator commonly runs $150 to $300 an hour. Hauled fill gets priced by the load or by the cubic yard. Our minimum project is around $10,000. We price it after seeing the site and the elevations.
Can grading fix the water that stands in my pasture?
Usually, yes. Standing water means the ground has no fall toward an outfall. We find where the water can leave, then cut and fill so the surface drains that way. On flat prairie that often means swales, a crown across the field and a low corner built up with fill. The whole area gets set to elevation so the water keeps moving.
How do you price a big regrade?
Three things drive it. Machine time is the hours of excavator and dozer work it takes to cut and shape the ground. Material is the fill we place, which comes from your own property or from our pits. Haul is the truck time to move it, and that goes up with distance. We put those together after we see the job.
Do you level small yards?
No. Our minimum project is about $10,000, and we are built for acreage. The smallest excavators we own weigh 50,000 pounds. Moving equipment that size onto a site costs money before any dirt turns. For a quarter acre backyard, a smaller local contractor is the better fit. For a pasture, a lot or a commercial site, call us.
How long does a grading job take?
A few acres can be cut and shaped in two or three days. A whole property regrade with hundreds of loads of fill runs a week or more. Weather drives the schedule, since wet clay will not compact and has to dry first. We are open 24 hours, so on jobs with a hard deadline we run shifts around the clock.
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We Own the Dirt

Two sand and dirt pits in southeast Fort Bend County. Select fill, bank sand and fill dirt come from our own ground, on our own trucks, when your schedule needs them.

Equipment With Real Weight

Our smallest excavators weigh 50,000 pounds. Ponds, pads, clearing and volume dirt work get machines sized for the job, backed by a fleet of tandem dump trucks.

Built for Volume Work

Hundreds of loads on one project is a normal week here. We run shifts around the clock when a deadline calls for it, and the job is priced from the site, not a phone guess.

Fort Bend County Roots

Fifteen years working this ground, most of it repeat and referral. We know what the coastal prairie clay does when it rains and what it takes to build on it.

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