Drainage Services Serving the Asheville Area
7 local businesses listed
Drainage is arguably the most important trade on this site and the least thought about. Asheville gets substantial rainfall onto steep terrain, which means every property is either directing water somewhere deliberately or discovering where it goes on its own. Standing water in the yard, a wet crawl space, a basement that smells like a basement, erosion cutting a channel across the lawn — those are all the same problem showing up in different places.
The 2024 flooding made this vivid for a lot of homeowners, but the everyday version is more common: a downspout discharging against a foundation on a downhill grade, doing quiet damage for years.
We’re still building out this category, and the businesses listed here handle French drains, foundation drainage, regrading, and stormwater management. Several of the excavating contractors in the directory do drainage work as well.
Before you pay for any drainage system, have someone walk the property during or right after a hard rain. Where the water actually goes is rarely where anyone assumed it went.
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Asheville Drainage
We are a landscaping company that helps our clients resolve drainage issues and water problems on their property. Whenever possible, we use green infrastructure and sustainable rainwater harvesting techniques. We also install rain-harvesting systems and design and install off-grid water capture and distribution systems.
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BLS Land Management
BLS Land Management works out of Huffman Road in Clyde on the jobs that fall between landscaping and excavation. Gravel driveway repair, lot clearing with an excavator, storm drainage installation, tree removal, yard maintenance, and hauling up to three tons with a one-ton dump truck. That last detail is more useful than it sounds — it tells you the scale of work this is a fit for, and where you'd want a bigger outfit instead. Gravel driveways are the recurring one in this county. Every hard rain moves material downhill, and the fix is usually re-grading the crown and giving the water somewhere else to go, not another load of stone on top. They offer online estimates as well as site visits.
- Residential
Greenspan Landscaping Company
Greenspan Landscaping Company is a family-owned, licensed and insured landscaping and hardscaping outfit based on Azalea Avenue in Black Mountain, working across the Swannanoa Valley and greater Asheville since 2015. The range is wider than most lawn-and-shrub companies. Alongside design, planting, and maintenance, they build pavers and patios, retaining walls, and stonework, and take on grading, hauling, and drainage systems — the last of which matters on WNC lots where the water has to go somewhere before it goes into the crawlspace. They also install water features and aquascapes, and handle tree work in-house. Residential and commercial both.
- Residential
- Commercial
Haynes Tree & Excavation
Haynes Tree & Excavation is a family-owned business rooted in Waynesville, covering Waynesville, Clyde, Maggie Valley, and Canton. The unusual part is the combination. Most outfits do trees or dirt, not both, and around here those two jobs keep running into each other — a removal on a slope leaves ruts and a stump hole, and land clearing is half tree work before an excavator ever matters. One insured crew closing out both sides saves a second mobilization. They run 24/7 emergency tree service, which is the number worth having saved before a storm rather than during one. Drainage work too, which in this terrain is usually the real fix when a yard won't dry out.
- Residential
- Commercial
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Mountain Drainage Solutions
Mountain Drainage Solutions is a local, family-owned and operated small business serving our neighbors here in Asheville and the surrounding areas. We are dedicated to providing efficient and reliable solutions for all your drainage needs. With years of experience in the industry, our skilled team specializes in diagnosing and resolving drainage issues promptly and effectively. Whether it’s gutter maintenance, interior water intrusion, or pooling rainwater, we have the expertise and tools to tackle any challenge. We prioritize customer satisfaction, striving to deliver exceptional service, and restore proper functionality to your drainage system. Trust us to keep your property dry, clean, and worry-free with our professional drainage services.
Mountain Land Management
Mountain Land Management is a land clearing and grading outfit on Barnrock Drive in Mills River, with more than twenty years of experience taking overgrown lots down to build-ready ground. Their specialty is forestry mulching — grinding brush and small trees into mulch on site rather than hauling or burning it. On a wooded lot that means less truck traffic, no burn pile, and a layer of organic material left behind for erosion control. They also do stump grinding, grading and drainage, retaining walls, and storm debris removal. They are a member of the Carolina Loggers Association. Coverage spans Henderson, Buncombe, Haywood, Transylvania, and Rutherford counties, the Tryon area, and upstate South Carolina.
- Residential
- Commercial
- Green Building
Pisgah Land Solutions
Pisgah Land Solutions works out of Mills River across two trades that usually mean two contractors: tree work and land development. The tree side covers removal — including crane removals — stump grinding, pruning, view clearing, hazardous tree inspection, and storm cleanup. The land side covers clearing and lot prep, excavation, demolition, gravel road installation and repair, drainage and erosion control, and culvert installation. They also build sustainable trails and timber bridges, which is unusual and useful on larger mountain properties. That pairing is worth noting if you are prepping a building lot: the trees come down and the grading and drainage happen under one contract. Licensed and insured, 24/7 emergency service. Coverage runs through Henderson and Transylvania counties — Mills River, Hendersonville, Brevard, Etowah, Horse Shoe, Pisgah Forest, Rosman, Lake Toxaway, and Asheville.
- Residential
- Commercial
- 24/7 Emergency
