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Salty Dog Lawn Care & Landscaping · Serving Wilmington
Drainage & Stormwater Solutions in Wilmington, NC
From Leland, Wilmington is a 10-to-15-minute drive north via US-17 across the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge, or through the MLK Jr. Parkway corridor depending on which part of the city the job is in.
The demographic spread across Wilmington means drainage calls come in from every direction. Retirees in Landfall and along Masonboro Loop Road are managing low-lying lots that sheet water toward foundations after every coastal storm. Young families in Ogden and Murrayville bought homes where builder grading sends runoff the wrong way from day one. Property managers on College Road and Market Street are watching parking-lot and green-area drainage systems fail under heavier storm loads. Salty Dog handles all of it -- French drains, catch basins, and full site grading across New Hanover County.
Standing water, eroding planting beds, and soggy turf are drainage problems — not watering problems. We diagnose the source: grade, soil type, downspout routing, or site runoff from adjacent properties. Then we install the right fix — French drains, catch basins, channel drains, or full regrading — rather than the cheapest one. We work on residential lots, HOA common areas, and commercial sites across Brunswick, New Hanover, and Pender Counties. If the water has nowhere to go, we can coordinate stormwater pond work as part of the same project.
About Wilmington
Wilmington sits just across the Cape Fear River from Leland, and that short bridge crossing puts Salty Dog within easy reach of a city with two very different faces: the older residential streets of Forest Hills and Sunset Park, and the fast-growing HOA and apartment corridors along Porters Neck Road and the College Road spine. Market Street and Carolina Beach Road each carry their own mix of commercial and residential properties, and the flat coastal terrain means drainage and turf problems here look a lot like they do in Brunswick County -- compacted soils, subdivisions where builder-grade sod never got proper follow-up, and stormwater ponds required in nearly every development built in the last 30 years. Salty Dog's full service range runs across county lines without a gap.
Serving Landfall, Porters Neck, Forest Hills, Monkey Junction and surrounding Wilmington.
Everything we do in Wilmington →Common questions
Do you service Wilmington even though you're based in Leland?
Yes. Wilmington is a primary service area -- the drive across the Cape Fear is short, and the team works regularly in New Hanover County on both residential and commercial accounts.
How do I know if I need a drainage solution?
For Wilmington customers: the most common signs are standing water that does not clear within 24 to 48 hours after rain, soft or persistently wet areas in the yard, water pooling near the foundation, and turf that stays unhealthy despite proper care. Call us and we will walk the property and tell you what we are seeing.
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Tell us about your property and we'll come walk it with you. Transparent, upfront estimates for residential projects; detailed proposals for commercial contracts.