Lake Bank Restoration and Erosion Repair in Lakewood Ranch, FL

Working with CDD boards and association managers

Most of these ponds are district or association infrastructure, so the decision runs through a board, a budget cycle and a meeting agenda. We are used to that. We measure the failure in linear feet, put the scope and the number in writing, and give you something you can hand to supervisors without translating it first.

Littoral shelf plantings on Ranch ponds are held to Southwest Florida Water Management District standards, and on the Manatee side these ponds drain toward the Braden River, which runs west into the Manatee River. Bank work gets done with that in mind, which usually means restoring the shelf as part of the repair rather than armoring straight over it.

• PondTech plank system, licensed and available only through our company
• Bank rebuild and regrade where the toe has been undercut
• Littoral shelf restoration built into the repair
• Linear foot pricing, $50 to $100 depending on the failure
• Written scopes formatted for board and budget review
• Multi year agreements, a large portion of our work is repeat business

What Erosion Does to a Retention Pond

A stormwater pond is built with a gentle slope for a reason. That slope holds sod, slows runoff before it reaches the water, and keeps the edge stable. Once the bank starts to cut back the slope steepens, the sod loses its footing, and the pond fills with the material it lost.

The damage rarely stops at the waterline. Catch it early and the repair is a fraction of what it costs after the edge has moved.

• Sod hanging over the edge with nothing under it
• Exposed irrigation lines and sprinkler heads
• Ruts and gullies where runoff enters the pond
• Sediment collecting in the shallow end
• The shoreline creeping toward a path, wall or lanai

The Repair Options We Offer

There is no single right fix. It depends on how much bank is gone, how much wave action the pond takes, what the water level does through the year, and what the association has to spend. Here is what we install.

• Regrading. Equipment and fill to rebuild the bank back to its original design slope, then stabilize and sod it.
• Rip rap. A rock embankment along the shoreline that takes the wave energy off the soil. Good on open water.
• Coconut fiber logs. Coir logs staked against the shoreline for natural erosion control that vegetation can grow into.
• PondTech plank system. Planks installed subsurface along the bank to hold the soil and help move water to the pond without it causing surface erosion. A proprietary product licensed, installed and only available through our company.

How Long the Fix Should Last

This is usually the first question a board asks and it is a fair one. A common repair around here is a sock tube filled with sand laid along the shoreline. Those tubes can split and lose their sand in five to seven years, and then the association pays for the same stretch of bank twice.

We would rather tell you up front what each option gives you. Rock does not rot. Coir is organic and is meant to hold the bank while plants take root and take over. The plank system exists because customers were tired of the repair coming back around as a line item every few years.

Built for Boards and Property Managers

We price by the linear foot so the number is easy to put in front of a board. We walk the site with you or with your manager, mark what needs attention now and what can wait a season, and put it in writing. Nobody has to guess what they are voting on.

Crews arrive in uniform in clean lettered trucks, work around residents and cart traffic, and clean up at the end of the day. We carry workers compensation and general liability insurance and can send certificates before we mobilize.