Most blokes dig a hole, walk off, and leave you with a scarred paddock and a puddle. We read the land first, build with the right clay, and hand back a dam that holds.
Fill this in and Chase will give you a call back personally, usually same day.
A dam is not a hole in the ground. It's a piece of land you're asking to hold thousands of tonnes of water through drought, flood, and forty summers. That takes reading the country, knowing your soil, keying the clay core in properly, and walking the contours before a single track touches the dirt. Most blokes skip that part. We don't.
When you stand on your back paddock in February and the dam is still full, that's not luck. That's a wall built with the right material, compacted in the right lifts, sitting on a base that was stripped and proof-rolled before a drop of water touched it. That's the difference between a dam that lasts your lifetime and one that's seeping by Easter.
The best dams don't shout. A year on, the batters are grassed, the spillway runs clean, the surrounds blend back into the paddock, and visitors assume the dam was always part of the place. That's the finish we chase on every build. Quiet, settled, and bloody permanent.
Cowboys fight the country. They cut where they shouldn't and dump spoil where it'll wash. We follow the fall, match the soil to the job, and let the land do half the work.
We walk the site with you, test the soil, find the natural fall, and mark the spot where a dam wants to sit. No guesswork, no shortcuts.
Strip the topsoil, key the clay core into virgin ground, compact in proper lifts, shape the spillway. Same method every time. Done once, done right.
Batters shaped, topsoil back on, grass seed down, surrounds tidied. Come back in twelve months and you'd swear nature put it there herself.
Fair question, it's the biggest fear we hear. The answer is the clay core. We test your soil first, and if your ground won't hold water on its own, we cart in proper clay and key it into virgin subsoil. Compacted in lifts, not dumped in one go. That's why ours hold.
Because they're quoting a hole, not a dam. Cheap quotes skip the soil test, skip the core key, skip the compaction, and skip the spillway. Three years later you're paying someone else to fix it, or you're losing the dam entirely. Cheapest quote is almost always the most expensive.
No. We plan access before we start, lay out spoil where it makes sense, and put the topsoil back when we're done. Most clients tell us they can't even see where the machines came in once the grass grows back.
Depends on size and soil, but most farm dams sit between one and three weeks on site. We'll give you a real timeframe at quote, not a guess. If weather pushes us, we tell you straight away. No ghosting.
Yes. Once we've walked the site and tested the ground, the price we give you is the price you pay. No surprise variations, no scope creep. The only time price moves is if you ask for extra work, and even then we quote it before we touch it.
I run TASK Elite Dams out of Newborough. I've spent years watching landowners get burnt by blokes who dig a hole, take the cheque, and disappear before the first wet season tests their work. That's why I started doing this my way.
Every dam I build, I'm on site. I read the country, I match the method to your soil, and I don't leave until the spillway runs clean and the batters are shaped proper. If it's not a dam I'd want on my own place, it's not going on yours.
If that sounds like the sort of bloke you want on your property, give us a yell. I'll come have a proper walk around and tell you straight what your land needs.
Get A QuoteIf anything we built fails because of our workmanship, we come back and fix it. No arguments, no fine print. We stand behind the way we build because we build them to hold, and we've got no problem putting that in writing.
Fixed-price quote after a site walk. No pressure, no hard sell. Just a straight answer on what your land needs.