Septic systems, caliche and building pads, laydown yards, driveways and grading — for homes and ranches outside city sewer, and for oilfield and industrial sites across the Permian Basin.
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Seminole, Texas · Monday to Friday, 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM.
Level Ground Construction is Frank Redekopp's outfit, run out of Seminole. Around Gaines County the name usually does the introducing. Call the number and you're not routed to a call center in another state — you're talking to the company that will actually be on your property, about ground it already knows. Tell Frank the town, what you're building or what's failed, and roughly when you need it, and you'll get a straight answer on whether it's a job for us.
On the septic side, Frank holds all four Texas OSSF licenses the state issues — Installer I, Installer II, Site Evaluator, and Maintenance Provider. That means one company carries a septic job from the soil test through the permit application, the install, and the servicing afterward. What those four licenses cover →
Nine services, and they sort into two kinds of customer. If you're a homeowner, rancher, or builder, you're most likely here for a septic system, a driveway, or a pad to set a house or a shop on. If you're running an oilfield or industrial site, you're here for caliche pads, laydown yards, and the grading that keeps a location usable after it rains. Each one below has its own page with the detail on it.
A commercial system is sized off headcount, hours, and what goes down the drain — not off square footage — so a shop with a crew, an office building, and a man camp all calculate differently even when they look the same from the road. We handle the flow estimate, the design, the permitting track, and the excavation the install needs.
Commercial septic systems across the Permian Basin →If your property isn't on a city sewer line, the wastewater from the house has to be treated on your own land — a new build, a system that quit, or one that won't pass before closing. We do the site evaluation, the design, the permit application, the install, and the grading that leaves water running away from the house instead of standing over the field.
Septic system installation in Seminole, TX →Caliche is the hard rock layer under most of West Texas, and it's what makes a surface a loaded truck can sit on in wet weather. A pad is only as good as the subgrade under it and the compaction in each lift, so we strip, cut to grade, and build back up in controlled lifts rather than dumping material and hoping.
Caliche pads for oilfield sites in Gaines County →A slab is only as level and as stable as the pad under it, and a pad that settles takes the building with it. We clear the footprint, strip the topsoil, cut and fill to grade, and compact to a tolerance that will hold a house, a shop, a barn, or a commercial building.
Building pads and site prep in Seminole, TX →A laydown yard has to take loaded trucks, stacked pipe, and forklift traffic without rutting, and it has to shed water or it turns into a bog the first wet week. We build the surface, set the grade so water leaves, and size the yard to the equipment that's actually going to sit on it.
Laydown yard construction across the Permian Basin →A rural drive fails at the base and at the edges, not in the middle, and it's usually because there's no crown and nowhere for the water to go. We build new caliche and gravel drives and rebuild worn ones, with the crown and the drainage set so the surface stays where you put it.
Caliche driveway installation in Seminole, Seagraves and Denver City →Grading decides where water goes, and where water goes decides whether your slab, your drive, and your septic field stay dry. We shape and level ground so runoff moves away from what you built and away from what you buried.
Land grading and drainage work in Gaines County, TX →Site cuts, tank excavations, utility trenches, and bulk earth removal, dug to a depth and an alignment the next trade can build to. Most of the work out here is working around what's already in the ground — old lines, an old system, and caliche that doesn't want to move.
Excavation and trenching in Seminole, TX →Clearing, grubbing, leveling, hauling, and fill placement — the work that has to happen before anybody else can start. Raw land or a site that's been used hard, we get the ground to the shape the next phase needs.
Dirt work and land clearing across West Texas →Not sure which of those your job is? Call (432) 209-5410 and describe it. That's a two-minute conversation, not a project.
Septic installs, caliche pads, laydown yards, building pads, and driveway work.
We're based in Seminole, and most of what we do sits inside about an hour of it. In Gaines County that's Seminole, Seagraves, and Loop. Beyond the county line we work in Denver City, Andrews, Brownfield, Lamesa, Midland, and Odessa — septic systems, caliche and building pads, laydown yards, driveways, grading, and dirt work, the same list in every one of them.
We cross the state line for dirt work, pads, and driveways in Hobbs and Lovington, New Mexico. Septic is a different matter over there: New Mexico permits on-site wastewater through its own state environment department, under rules that aren't Texas's, so call and ask before you plan around us for a septic system in New Mexico.
Town not on the list? Call anyway. We travel for bigger jobs, and finding out takes one phone call.
We're based in Seminole, Texas, and we work across Gaines County and the Permian Basin: Seminole, Seagraves, Loop, Denver City, Andrews, Brownfield, Lamesa, Midland, and Odessa. We also do dirt work, pads, and driveways in Hobbs and Lovington, New Mexico. If your town isn't on that list, call and ask — for bigger jobs we travel further.
Both families the state recognizes. A conventional system settles solids in a tank and returns the liquid to the soil through a drainfield. An aerobic system adds a blower, treats the water further, and disperses it above ground, usually by sprinklers — which is what you use when the soil won't take water, when caliche is close to the surface, or when the lot is too small for a full field. Which one you get is decided by the soil test, not by preference. Frank Redekopp holds Texas OSSF Installer I, Installer II, Site Evaluator, and Maintenance Provider licenses, so the evaluation, the install, and the servicing afterward all come from the same company.
In Texas a septic system has to be permitted before it goes in and inspected before it's used. The permit comes either from a local authorized agent — a county or city that TCEQ has delegated the job to — or from TCEQ's own regional office, depending on where your property sits. Who submits the application goes both ways in practice, so we settle that with you before work starts rather than leaving it as an assumption. The review itself is the part of the schedule nobody on our side of the table controls, which is why the first call ought to happen earlier than most people make it.
Caliche is the hard, chalky rock layer under most of West Texas, and a caliche pad is a compacted surface built out of it. You need one anywhere heavy equipment or loaded trucks have to sit on dirt and keep sitting on it — well sites, work yards, equipment storage, shop aprons, and rural driveways. How long it lasts comes from the subgrade underneath and the compaction in each lift, not from how much material got dumped on top.
A caliche pad is a working surface — built to be driven on, parked on, and worked off of. A building pad is a foundation platform, built to a tighter grade and compacted to carry a structure that won't tolerate settling. Same equipment, different tolerances, and it matters which one you ask for.
Yes — dirt work, pads, and driveways in Hobbs and Lovington. Septic is separate. New Mexico permits on-site wastewater through the New Mexico Environment Department under its own rules, not through TCEQ, so don't assume our Texas licensing carries across the line. Call and ask before you plan around it.
The town and roughly where the property sits, what you're building or what's failed, and when you need it. For a septic system, add whether there's already a system on the ground and how many bedrooms the house has — or the headcount and the hours, if it's a commercial site. That's usually enough for Frank to tell you whether it's our kind of job and what has to happen first.
Tell us the town, what you need done, and roughly when. That's enough to say whether it's our kind of work and what it would take to get it going. The phone is faster than the form, and it reaches the people who'd be doing the job.
Call Frank — (432) 209-5410
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