Grading intent and site shaping
Grading decisions that establish how water should move across the property in plan — coordinated with walks, terraces, and lawn areas already described in firm materials.
Stormwater Management
Grading and landscape-led drainage for water on site
Grading, drainage, and landscape-led approaches to moving and retaining water responsibly on site — the same summary already used on the services overview — sit alongside hardscape, planting, pools, and irrigation in the firm’s integrated outdoor practice rather than as a standalone technical silo.
Site-sensitive water
Water movement in the landscape plan
How water arrives, crosses paving, meets beds, and leaves the property affects every other outdoor decision. Stormwater management here means landscape-led coordination with the broader plan — the same “site water” framing used on the services overview next to pools, lighting, and irrigation — not a separate conversation from how you live outdoors.
Stormwater-sensitive water elements also appear in the pools and water-features language on the homepage and services catalog; when recreation and surface water features are the lead story, Pools & water features may be the clearer entry, with stormwater thinking still coordinated underneath.
Typical scope
What stormwater management can include
Landscape-led, scope-level descriptions — not engineering certifications, code promises, or runoff statistics.
Surface drainage
Surface drainage approaches where moving water on site responsibly is part of the documented scope — aligned with the services overview language on drainage.
Retention and movement in the landscape
Landscape-led approaches to retaining and moving water — consistent with “moving and retaining water responsibly on site” as already summarized for this category.
Coordination with hardscape and paving
Paving, aprons, and hardscape edges planned so drainage intent stays legible — the same coordination theme used when structural and hydraulic elements are described together on the services overview.
Coordination with planting and soils
Planting and soil volumes considered alongside water movement — so beds and turf are not detailed in isolation from how the site sheds or holds water.
Finishing details tied to the broader site
Details that tie drainage and grading back to the overall outdoor composition — including where pool or water-feature scopes intersect stormwater-sensitive planning.
How it fits our process
Same coordinated pathway
Stormwater-related work follows the firm’s six-stage process. The summaries below match the Process page.
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Consultation & site analysis
We begin with an on-site consultation and initial site analysis so we understand your goals, the conditions of the land, and how you intend to live outdoors. That first pass sets the tone for everything that follows — what to protect, what to improve, and where the landscape can do its best work.
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Conceptual planning & layout
Conceptual sketches and layout options are developed and reviewed with you — tailored to your tastes and to the opportunities of the site. This is where directions are compared before time and budget commit to a single built solution.
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Plans, details & renderings
We prepare complete landscape design plans with details, and color renderings when they help you visualize the finished environment before construction. The intent is straightforward: decisions stay clear while there is still room to refine — so what gets built matches what you approved on paper.
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Construction & installation
When plans are approved, our crews deliver coordinated construction and landscape installation across the scopes your project requires — hardscape, planting, lighting, water features, irrigation, and related site work — with disciplined coordination rather than a loose chain of handoffs.
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Supervision & workmanship
Work is personally supervised by Greg or a member of the management team. We select high-quality nursery stock and landscape materials suited to each job, and we guarantee our workmanship — we stand behind the outcome of the work we take on.
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Optional maintenance & care
Maintenance contracts and care programs are available when you want disciplined seasonal attention after installation — including pruning, mulching, lawn programs, and seasonal preparation — aligned with the ongoing landscape services we offer when you want the landscape to stay at its best.
Representative work
Photography from Esterly Link site and water-related work
Images from existing project photography on this site.
Project fit
When stormwater leads the conversation
This category is a natural lead when grading, drainage, or landscape-led water movement are the central problem to solve — residential, estate-scale, commercial, or environmental properties where water needs to be read with paving, planting, and outdoor use together.
When pools, spas, or ornamental water are the primary story, Pools & water features may be the clearer entry; stormwater-sensitive coordination still applies where those scopes overlap.
Additional photography illustrating drainage and site-water context will continue to appear on the portfolio over time.
Discuss stormwater and site drainage
Share what you are seeing on site during wet weather and what you want to protect. We will follow up to schedule a consultation — the same first step we use on the Main Line and surrounding communities.