Concrete Contractor
in Spring, TX

Spring is not a city. It is an unincorporated community in north Harris County, so there is no city hall and no city code. Your permit comes from Harris County Permits at 1111 Fannin St for the Harris side. If your lot sits on the Montgomery County side, in a 77386 community like Harmony or The Falls at Imperial Oaks, it files with Montgomery County in Conroe, which wants a permit for any development whether or not it is in the floodplain. As a general contractor in Spring, TX, the first thing we do is check which county your lot is in, because it changes who signs off.

Geologic maps put Spring on the Lissie Formation, a mix of sand, silt and clay. Soils like Clodine, Wockley and Splendora are loamy, with low to moderate shrink-swell, so extreme clay heave is not the main worry here. Wetness is. These soils can hold water 4 to 33 inches down in winter and spring. The ground is also sinking: the subsidence district recorded about 12 inches at Lindell Road since 2007. That is why drainage, pad height and a geotech report drive our foundation repair and slab work in Spring.

Then there is the water. Spring, Cypress and Willow Creeks all flooded badly in 1994, 2016 and 2017, and Harris County writes strict rules because of it. In the 100-year floodplain, new floors have to sit 24 inches above the 500-year flood elevation. Fill in the 500-year floodplain needs 1:1 mitigation in the same watershed. The 2019 Atlas 14 update raised minimum detention to 0.75 acre-feet per acre for ponds that drain to storm sewers. Most homes here went up between the 1970s and the 2000s, from Ponderosa Forest to the master-planned builds off the Grand Parkway. Our crews are self-performed and our yard is about 20 minutes south on the Hardy Toll Road, so we are on your Spring lot the same week you call.