Yard Drainage & Grading in Farmington, MO
Yard drainage in Farmington, MO is a fight against clay — soil that takes water in slowly and lets it go even slower. That's why yards here hold puddles for days, basements smell like rain, and low spots turn to muck every spring. Revolution Landscapes & Construction diagnoses where the water actually comes from and builds the fix — French drains, regrading, downspout routing — so the problem ends instead of moving.
Drainage Problems We Solve
Standing Water & Soggy Lawns
The classic Lead Belt yard: puddles that outlast the storm by three days and turf that squishes into June. Usually a grading-plus-clay problem with a well-defined fix.
Water Against the Foundation
The expensive one. Water pooling at the house or a damp basement wall means grade or downspouts are feeding water toward the structure. This is the problem to fix this season, not next.
Washouts & Erosion
Mulch in the driveway after every storm, gullies cutting through beds, topsoil migrating downhill. Erosion is drainage wearing work boots — we fix the flow, then repair the damage.
Slope & Runoff Problems
Uphill neighbors, natural swales, driveways that channel water somewhere unfortunate. Ozark-foothill lots move a lot of water; the job is giving it a route you chose.
The Fixes We Build
A French drain — perforated pipe in a gravel-lined trench — collects subsurface water and moves it to a safe outlet; it's the workhorse for soggy lawns and wet foundations. Regrading reshapes the surface so water sheds away from the house instead of toward it; sometimes a few inches of grade change solves what gadgets can't. Downspout extensions and buried gutter lines get roof water — thousands of gallons a year — out of the beds and away from the walls. Dry creek beds handle big surface flows and look good doing it. Catch basins and channel drains collect water where hard surfaces concentrate it. Most real solutions combine two or three of these; we design the combination after we've watched how your lot actually drains.
Why This Ground Does This
St. Francois County sits on clay-heavy, often rocky soil over old mining terrain. Clay swells shut when wet, so rain stops soaking and starts traveling — across the surface, along the top of the clay layer, and into whatever low spot or foundation it finds first. Add our real slopes and hard summer downpours and drainage stops being optional. It's the first thing we design on almost every project, because plants, patios, and walls all fail early when water goes unmanaged.
Our Process
We start by walking the lot — ideally after rain — and finding where water enters, where it sits, and where it can legally and safely go. You get a diagnosis in plain English, a plan, and an itemized quote. The build is surgical: trenches cut clean, pipe laid to fall, gravel and fabric done right, sod restored over the scars. Most drainage projects finish in days, and the first big storm afterward is the test we look forward to.
Why Homeowners Choose Revolution Landscapes & Construction
Veteran-owned, Missouri SDVE certified, design-build. We fix causes, not symptoms — no burying a pipe because it's easy when the actual problem is grade. Because we also build retaining walls, patios, and full landscapes, drainage gets designed into the bigger picture of your property instead of patched onto it. And if the honest fix is smaller than you feared — a downspout extension instead of a drain field — that's the one we'll recommend.
Serving Farmington & All of St. Francois County
Solving wet yards across Farmington, Park Hills, Desloge, Bonne Terre, Ste. Genevieve, Fredericktown, Potosi, De Soto, and Ironton.
Revolution Landscapes & Construction · 6805 State Hwy 32, Farmington, MO 63640 · (573) 366-0460 · revolutionlandscapesmo.com
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Stop living with a wet yard.
Show us where the water goes and we'll show you how to end it — diagnosis first, honest fix second.
Veteran-owned and based in Farmington, serving all of St. Francois County.