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Drainage for Katy-area commercial property
Small office buildings, retail strips, churches and multi-family properties get the same symptoms as a house: ponding, water at the door, mud across the pavement. The scale and the paperwork are larger.
What Property Managers Call About
Parking lot ponding
Low spots that hold water for a day after rain, often where the pavement has settled or an inlet is blocked.
Water at the entrance
Sidewalks or landscape beds pitched toward a door.
Landscape beds
Beds and islands shedding mulch and soil onto the pavement every storm.
Commercial Work Starts With the Site Plan
Commercial sites usually have an approved drainage design, and changes to it may need engineering and a permit from the city or county. Fort Bend County says storm water detention is typically required to offset the impact of new development there, and a detention pond or underground system on a commercial site is part of that design.
A drainage contractor can handle maintenance-level work and small corrections. Changes to detention, grading across the site or connections to public storm sewers may need a civil engineer first. The contractor who takes the request will say which side of that line the job falls on.
Not covered here
Parking lot resurfacing and restriping, irrigation system changes (TCEQ-licensed irrigator work) and building plumbing are separate trades.
Describe the Property
Give the address, the type of property and where the water collects.
Call (346) 239-7247 Send the Details