Serving Wharton, TX
RLS Land Solutions sells and delivers fill dirt in Wharton, Texas. We own two sand and dirt pits in southeast Fort Bend County, about 31 miles from town. Our tandem dump trucks load at our pits and run down to your site. We carry select fill, general fill dirt, sand and sandy loam. Wharton jobs usually need volume. A house pad near the river can take a hundred loads or more, and a commercial pad takes several times that. Because the material and the trucks are both ours, a big order does not sit waiting on a supplier. Fill dirt orders here start around $10,000.
Wharton has a real reason to buy dirt. About 60 percent of the city sits inside the 100 year floodplain of the Colorado River. Building here often means bringing the ground up before anything else happens. That is fill work, and it is measured in loads. We haul what your plan calls for and place it in lifts so it compacts. If the elevation comes from a survey or an engineer, we build to that number. The number itself comes from your side, and the dirt comes from ours.
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We mine our own material. The two pits sit in southeast Fort Bend County, on the Needville side. Owning them changes what we can promise on a Wharton job. We set our own loading hours and we control the supply. When a job needs 300 loads across four days, we open the pit and run trucks. The haul to Wharton is about 31 miles, most of it on good road. Short hauls keep the cost per yard down, since trucking is a big part of what dirt costs. That is the main reason volume jobs come to us.
Different jobs need different material. Select fill is a clay and sand blend that packs tight. That is what a building pad wants. General fill dirt is cheaper and works for bringing a low area up or filling a hole. Sand drains and works as a base under some slabs and around pipe. Sandy loam is the topsoil style material for yards and finish work. Pads get built on select fill instead. We can send more than one material to the same site if the plan calls for layers.
Wharton knows what the river can do. Hurricane Harvey flooded the Colorado in 2017 and damaged more than a third of the buildings in town. Areas along the river like Hobben Oaks, Bear Bottom and Pecan Valley took it hard. Since then, the city and the Army Corps have been building a levee system along the river. Phase one broke ground in late 2023 and covers about 12,350 feet of new levee. The full Wharton plan covers miles of levee and floodwall. Raising ground got taken seriously in this town, and it shows in how people build now.
Raising a lot is a dirt math problem. You need the elevation you are building to and the area you are covering. That gives the yards, and yards give the truckloads. We haul the material and place it in lifts, and we pack each layer before the next one goes down. Dumping a pile and shoving it flat leaves soft ground that settles later. Around here, settlement under a slab is expensive to fix. Pad fill near the river also needs a plan for where water goes once the ground is higher than the yard next door.
Most fill orders here start with a number of loads or a number of yards. A tandem dump truck carries a set amount, so loads convert to yards cleanly. If you only know the area and depth, we can work out the volume with you. Access sets the rest. We need a way in that a loaded truck can use, and a place to turn around. Soft ground and low limbs slow a haul down more than distance does. On a tight site we stage trucks so they are not stacked up on the road.
Timing matters on volume orders. Wet weather can shut a haul down, because loaded trucks tear up soft ground and cannot climb a slick pad. We watch the forecast and try to load ahead of a wet stretch. We are open 24 hours, so a big order can run in shifts when the schedule is tight. Builders on a deadline use that. Volume is the part of this work we are set up for. If your Wharton job needs a few hundred loads in a week, tell us the date and we will build the truck count around it.
Free, no-obligation estimates throughout Wharton County.
(281) 750-6510From the first look at the ground to the last pass of the grade, here is exactly how it goes.
We meet you at the property and read the job off the ground itself: what is growing, where water sits, how trucks and excavators get in. Big dirt work prices off what is really out there.
You get a free quote with a real number and a real plan: what gets dug or cleared, how many loads move, where the dirt comes from or goes. It holds unless the scope changes.
The equipment shows up when we said. Excavators dig, trucks run in rotation, and on deadline jobs we run shifts around the clock until the volume is moved.
The last pass matters as much as the first load. Pads compacted and holding elevation, ponds shaped and ready for water, ground graded so it drains. We look at the finished work with you before we leave.
What Wharton property owners ask us most about select fill & dirt sales. Don't see yours? Give us a call — we're happy to help.
A pond you have been putting off, a pad that needs building, land that needs clearing, or a job that needs truckloads of select fill? Call or send the form. Tell us where the property is and what you want the land to do, and we will set a time to come look at it.
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