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Excavation in Richmond, TX

Serving Richmond · Fort Bend County

What We Do Around Richmond

RLS Land Solutions does excavation work in Richmond, Texas and across Fort Bend County. We run out of Needville, about 16 miles south of the Richmond courthouse square. Our crews clear acreage, dig ponds, cut building pads and move dirt by the hundreds of loads. We own two sand and dirt pits in southeast Fort Bend County. The select fill going into a Richmond job comes off ground we own. It gets hauled on our own tandem dump trucks. Our smallest excavators weigh 50,000 pounds, and the big ones go up from there. The Comparetto family has been doing this work for 15 years. Most of that time the phone rang because somebody passed our name along.

Richmond is the Fort Bend County seat and it sits right on the Brazos. That river shapes the dirt here. Along the bottoms you get alluvial ground and heavy clay. South along FM 762 the country opens into pasture and ranch tracts. Both hold water after a hard rain because the land is flat. Richmond is also growing fast. New rooftops and commercial pads keep pushing out along the Grand Parkway and US 59. Those lots need fill, and a lot of it. We built this outfit for that kind of volume.

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Excavation work we run in Richmond

Land clearing is a big part of what we do here. Richmond has acreage tracts loaded with brush, scrub trees and river bottom growth. We push it out with large excavators and dozer-class equipment, then haul it off. Cleared debris goes to a green waste dump site we own, so the haul-off stays in house. Pond and lake work is the next piece. Ranch owners south of town want stock ponds that hold water through August. We build them with real depth and a proper dam. Dirt work and grading rounds it out, mostly to fix drainage on flat lots.

Select fill and fill dirt come off our own pits in southeast Fort Bend County. Builders working Richmond lots order it by the load, and our trucks run it from the pit. Site prep and building pads follow the same pattern. We strip, fill, shape and compact the pad, then set it to the elevation the plan calls for. Ranch roads are steady work out on the FM 762 side. A caliche or limestone base has to survive wet weather out there. Dump truck hauling ties all of it together. Some Richmond jobs are nothing but hauling, hundreds of loads in and out.

Fort Bend ground, and how we work it

Fort Bend County is flat, and Richmond sits low next to the river. Water does not run off on its own here. It sits in the low spot until something moves it. Clay holds it even longer. On a Richmond lot that shows up as a soggy back corner or a barn pad that stays wet. The fix is almost always dirt and slope. We shoot grades, cut the fall you need and bring in fill where the ground is short. Then we tie it into a ditch or a culvert that already drains.

The other thing about Richmond is how much is getting built. Fort Bend County is in the top ten counties in the country for numeric population growth. Indigo went in near US 90 and the Grand Parkway and took its first residents in 2025. Every one of those lots gets raised with imported fill before a slab goes down. That is why we run tandem dump trucks in a fleet. Our minimum project runs about $10,000. We are built for acreage work and hundreds of loads. We are open around the clock, and on volume jobs we will run shifts.

Communities & areas we serve around Richmond: Historic Downtown Richmond, Pecan Grove, Long Meadow Farms, Harvest Green, Veranda, Crabb.

Richmond ZIP codes served: 77406, 77407, 77469.

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Questions From Richmond Property Owners

A few of the questions we hear most around Richmond. Don't see yours? Call us — we're happy to help.

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What does excavation work cost in Richmond, TX?
It depends on the dirt you move and how far it travels. Around Houston, land clearing commonly runs $1,500 to $6,000 an acre depending on how thick the growth is. Fill dirt often runs $10 to $25 a yard delivered. Our minimum project is about $10,000. A firm number comes after we look at the site.
Do you work outside the Richmond city limits?
Yes. Most of our Richmond area work sits on unincorporated ground. That includes Crabb, Booth, Thompsons and the acreage along FM 762 toward the George Ranch. We also run north toward Pecan Grove and west into the Grand Parkway subdivisions. If it is in Fort Bend County, we can get trucks there.
How fast can you get a Richmond job started?
Our pits sit about 16 miles south of Richmond, so mobilizing is short. On a big dirt job we can have trucks rolling the same week. We are open 24 hours. When a builder needs dirt around the clock, we will put three shifts on it.
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