Hydroseeding in Humble, TX

Hydroseeding in Humble happens a few miles upstream of the city of Houston's drinking water. Humble's Wikipedia page notes the town grew up near a ferry across the San Jacinto River, and Lake Houston, the reservoir on that river, is the primary municipal water supply for Houston. The lake sits between Kingwood, Atascocita and Humble on its west bank. That puts extra weight on keeping dirt on construction sites and out of ditches that feed the river.

Water supply and silt

The reservoir was created in 1953, and USGS monitoring stations were installed in its watershed in 2005 to track water quality. Sediment is one of the simplest pollutants to control: silt fence along the low edge of a site, protected inlets and quick grass cover on anything that has been graded. We set up those controls first and seed as soon as the grade is final.

An old oil field under the town

Humble became an oil boomtown in the early 1900s. By 1905 the Humble field was the biggest producer in Texas, and it has turned out more than 138 million barrels of oil. The town gave its name to Humble Oil and Refining Company, an Exxon predecessor. Some lots around Humble still carry old pad gravel, fill or leveled ground from that era. Before seeding we probe for buried rock and debris and bring in topsoil where the native surface is gone.

Back to farming, then suburbs

When the boom faded, many landowners went back to truck farming and dairy. Much of that open land has since been built on. New yards here are usually builder-graded clay that needs loosening before seed goes down.

Small city, steady work

Humble covers about 9.9 square miles, nearly all land. Some areas outside the city limits also carry Humble postal addresses, and we cover both.

Humble services

• Lawn hydroseeding and topsoil
• Silt fence and inlet protection
• Ditch and outfall erosion control
• Seeding old fill and pad ground

Get a free estimate or call (832) 772-4979.