Retaining Wall Repair on the Mount Vernon Ridge, IA
Cedar Rapids Retaining Walls repairs and rebuilds retaining walls in Mount Vernon, Iowa, and builds new walls and terraces on sloped lots. Block, boulder, natural stone, and timber replacement, plus wall drainage correction. We hold Iowa licensing and liability insurance.
Mount Vernon is the hill town of this county. The whole place sits on a paha, a narrow ridge of windblown sand and loess left by the ice ages. It runs about a mile long, a quarter mile across, and it stands roughly a hundred feet above the farmland on either side. Cornell College sits on top of it. Every street off that crown drops, and a lot that drops needs something to hold the grade. Down on the river at Palisades-Kepler the same country shows itself as forested bluffs and ravines.
Loess is fine, wind-laid silt. It stands up well when it is dry and it turns heavy when it is wet, and that is the load a Mount Vernon wall carries in a wet spring. On real grade, one tall wall is often the wrong answer. Two shorter walls with a genuine bench between them hold the same drop with less engineering and give you flat ground you can use. Set the pair too close and the upper wall loads the lower one, and you have a tall wall with none of the design that a tall wall needs.
Above roughly four feet, most cities want a permit and an engineer's drawing, and that height drops when a driveway or another slope sits above the wall. Your city sets the number. We confirm it before anyone digs.
Grid does the structural work on the tall runs. We use StrataGrid, run back a length set by wall height and by the soil behind it.
Call (319) 555-0129 for a free estimate on retaining wall work in Mount Vernon.