The one Hendricks town whose soil association is a valley, not a till plain. More floodplain ground here than anywhere else in the county.
Plainfield is the split personality of the county. About a quarter of the housing went up in the 2000s, but nearly a third of it predates 1980, so we are dealing with both new construction site work and genuinely old drainage in the same town. Along the older corridors that means clay tile that has finally given out, downspouts running to nowhere in particular, and driveways that have been patched more often than they have been poured.
The ground is what actually sets Plainfield apart. It has the highest share of floodplain soils of the nine Hendricks towns, around 12% Genesee and Shoals, and it is the only one whose broad soil association is a valley association rather than a till association. That is not a technicality. Floodplain alluvium behaves differently when you excavate it, it holds water differently, and it changes what an outlet can realistically do.
About 106 feet of relief across town gives you somewhere to take water, which is more than Lizton or Pittsboro can say. The catch is that on the lower ground the water table is closer than people expect, and a system designed as if it can always fall to daylight sometimes cannot. That is a thing to find out with a shovel before it is a thing to find out with an invoice.
Upper White basin. The valley ground puts more of Plainfield near a floodplain than any other Hendricks town.
About 106 feet of relief. Around 12.2% floodplain soils (Genesee and Shoals), the highest in the county, on a Sawmill-Lawson-Genesee valley association.
2000s the biggest decade at 25.6%, but 31.9% predates 1980. Both new site work and old failing drainage.
Plainfield is an MS4 with its own certified construction program.
We do all nine services everywhere we work. These are the ones the ground in Plainfield 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 →Site clearing, grading, building pads and trenching for residential, commercial and new construction.
See the work →Water service, sewer repair and replacement, storm sewer and directional boring, permitted and inspected.
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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Yes, in two ways. Where the outlet can go is more constrained, because falling to daylight is not always available on low ground, and the soil you are digging is alluvium rather than till, which behaves differently. It does not mean the problem cannot be solved. It means the design has to start from the elevations, not from a standard detail.
It depends on whether the failure is a section or the whole run. Clay tile of that age usually fails in a specific place first, and a spot repair is the cheaper honest answer if the rest of the line is sound. What is not honest is repairing one joint of a line that is going to fail again ten feet further along, so it is worth looking at the whole run before deciding.
Yes, and on an older Plainfield drive it is usually the right sequence. If roof or surface water is what undermined the old slab, replacing the concrete without redirecting the water just restarts the clock on the same failure.
Yes. Plainfield is in Hendricks County, one of the four counties we work. We are based in Brownsburg, and Plainfield 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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