Pond Excavation in Orrick, MO

Orrick is in southwestern Ray County, about 45 miles east of our Shawnee shop, where flat Missouri River bottomland meets wooded hills to the north. Where you put a pond here makes all the difference.

Bottom ground floods and often has sandy soil that won't hold water, so we usually look to the upland draws and slopes for pond sites. We check the drainage area and the soil, then clear the site, dig and shape the basin, compact the dam and build a spillway. For farms, a pond on the hillside can also catch runoff before it reaches the fields below.

We build ponds for livestock, fishing and erosion control, and we clean out or repair older ponds that have silted in. For a free pond estimate in Orrick or the surrounding area, call (913) 912-3820.