Hydroseeding in Liberty, SC

Liberty's economy was built on cotton mills that opened in 1901 and 1905, with mill villages housing the workers. The Little Mill was demolished in 2013 and the Big Mill is being stripped for demolition. Hydroseeding in Liberty increasingly means covering ground where those buildings and their surroundings used to be, along with yards in the old mill villages.

Demolition sites

When a large building comes down, it leaves a wide area of disturbed ground, rubble, old slab and compacted fill. Grass will not grow on that without work. We remove debris at the surface, rip compacted areas, bring in topsoil and then hydroseed. Silt fence goes up around the perimeter first, because a bare demolition site sheds a lot of sediment in its first storms.

Eighteen Mile Creek

Liberty's newer waterworks were built on Eighteen Mile Creek by 1956. Lots that drain toward the creek and its branches need sediment controls that actually catch runoff, not just a token row of fence.

Piedmont slopes

Liberty sits at about 984 feet on rolling Piedmont land. Pacolet, an upland soil series found across the Carolina Piedmont, is described by USDA as sandy loam over red clay on gently sloping to very steep uplands, with slopes commonly 15 to 25 percent and medium to rapid runoff. Where your soil behaves that way, we treat slopes as erosion risks first and lawns second: blankets on the steep parts, hydromulch everywhere else.

Mill village yards

Mill village houses sit on small lots that have been lived on for more than a century. Overseeding, liming and patching worn areas usually works better than tearing out the whole yard.

Pickens County setting

Liberty is part of the Greenville metro area but sits in Pickens County, so city and county stormwater offices are the ones to check with on larger grading jobs.

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