Where Level Ground Construction Works

Why Call Seminole for a Job in Andrews or Hobbs

Dirt work is a local trade for one plain reason: everything it uses is heavy. Caliche comes out of a pit and reaches you by the load. Excavators, dump trucks and motor graders move on a lowboy at highway speed and burn hours doing it. So the distance between our yard and your job isn't a detail on the invoice — it's part of the number. That's the real argument for hiring somebody who already works your county, and it's the only one worth making.

The other half is knowing where you are. Who issues an on-site sewage permit is not the same office in every county. What the county wants where a new driveway meets a county road is not the same either. Neither is the ground — sand over caliche hardpan behaves one way, tighter dirt another, and a pad built for the wrong one settles under the first heavy thing you put on it. We work across three groups of towns below, and what changes between them is worth spelling out.

Gaines County, Texas — Seminole, Seagraves, and Loop

Seminole is where the shop is, so this is home ground. Seagraves and Loop sit in the same county, which means the same permitting office, the same inspectors, the same pits, and the shortest haul we've got. It also means you can ask around about Frank Redekopp before you call. In this county, most people can tell you something.

Building a house, a shop, or anything on raw county land? Out here the sequence usually runs the same way: clear it, get the ground flat and compacted, put in a septic system because there's no sewer to tie to, and build a drive that survives the first wet spring. Any one of those is a job we'll take on its own, and if two or three of them belong to the same project, they're easier to sequence when one outfit is doing all of them.

Running a lease, a yard, or a facility in the county? Same equipment, different specification: a pad that holds weight standing still, a road that stays passable for the heaviest single load that will ever use it, a yard that drains toward an edge somebody picked on purpose. Tell us what goes on it and how heavy.

Job in Seminole, Seagraves, or Loop? Call (432) 209-5410.

Nearby Texas — Denver City, Andrews, Lamesa, Brownfield, Midland, and Odessa

Six towns, six county lines out from Seminole. The work doesn't change when you cross one. The paperwork does. Septic permitting in Texas runs through a local authority rather than one statewide desk, so the office you apply to, the forms it uses, and how long it takes to get a look are a county-by-county matter. Driveway approaches onto a county road work the same way — what's allowed where your drive meets the pavement is settled locally. Knowing which door to knock on is a small thing that costs weeks when nobody has thought about it.

If you're building or living on land in one of these counties, the practical question is usually material. Caliche is local, and how far it has to travel from a pit to your job shows up in the price of a pad or a drive far more than anything else does. That's a question worth asking early, and it's answerable on the phone before anyone drives out.

If you're an operator, a facilities coordinator, or a contractor working the Basin, Midland and Odessa are where most of the offices are and Andrews, Denver City and the country between them is where a lot of the iron is. Location pads, laydown and equipment yards, lease roads, grade restoration after a job — that's the same list we run in Gaines County, on the same equipment.

Midland and Odessa are the long end of this list. On a job of any size, the travel disappears into the total and nobody notices it. On a small half-day job, it doesn't — it's a real share of the cost. We'd rather say that on the phone than have you find it in a number you weren't expecting.

Working in Denver City, Andrews, Lamesa, Brownfield, Midland, or Odessa? Call (432) 209-5410.

New Mexico — Hobbs and Lovington

The state line is the closest boundary we work across, and for dirt work it barely registers. We cross it into Lea County for excavation and grading, caliche and building pads, laydown and equipment yards, driveways, ranch entrances, and lease access roads. The ground on that side of the line is much the same ground as this side, and so is the material and the way it has to be built.

Lea County runs on the same two industries Gaines County does — oil and agriculture — so the work looks familiar. What changes at the line is the paperwork, not the dirt. If you're building, running a location, or maintaining a yard around Hobbs or Lovington, tell us what's going on it and how heavy.

Job in Hobbs or Lovington? Call (432) 209-5410.

Septic Systems Across the State Line — Ask Before You Plan Around Us

One thing we won't be vague about. Texas and New Mexico regulate on-site wastewater separately, through different agencies, under different rules. In New Mexico, on-site liquid waste systems are permitted by the New Mexico Environment Department. That is its own system, with its own requirements, and nothing from the Texas side of the line carries into it by itself.

So the honest version is this. Dirt work, pads, yards and driveways in Hobbs and Lovington — yes, and that's what the section above is about. A septic system in New Mexico is a call first. Ring us, say what the property is and what it needs, and you'll get a straight answer before you've built a schedule around it. If the answer is no, you'll have it on the phone rather than three weeks into a project.

What We Do in Every Town on This Page

Four categories of work, and the same four wherever we go. Whichever one you're here for, the page explains how it's actually built before it asks you to call.

• Septic systems — site evaluation, permitting, and installation of conventional and aerobic systems for houses, shops, and commercial buildings. Texas towns; for New Mexico, read the section above first.
• Caliche and building pads — house pads, shop and building pads, equipment and laydown yards. Surfaces built to hold weight standing still.
• Dirt work and excavation — clearing, grubbing, grading, trenching, hauling, and the digging that comes before everything else.
• Driveways and access roads — new drives and rebuilds, ranch entrances, culverts and cattle guards, and oilfield lease roads. Surfaces built to be driven on.

If your project is two or three of those at once — and on raw land it usually is — say so on the first call. It's cheaper to sequence a pad, a septic system and a drive together than to bring the same equipment back three times.

Don't See Your Town?

The eleven above are where we work regularly. They're not a fence. For bigger jobs we travel further, and whether yours is one of those isn't something to guess at from a list on a website — tell us where the job is and what it involves, and we'll tell you. If it's too far to do properly, you'll hear that too. That answer is free and it takes one call.

Talk to Frank About Your Project

Tell us the town, what's being built or what's failed, and what's on the ground now. That's enough to have a real conversation. Frank Redekopp runs Level Ground Construction out of Seminole, and he'd rather talk through what a job actually needs than quote something nobody has looked at.

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Seminole · Seagraves · Loop · Denver City · Andrews · Lamesa · Brownfield · Midland · Odessa, Texas — Hobbs · Lovington, New Mexico