Dredging in Smiths Station
Slips, channels, and ponds priced off the published cost guide. Call (334) 610-0188 or send the form below.
Smiths Station fronts Lake Harding, the Georgia Power reservoir behind Bartletts Ferry Dam, and its Alabama shore holds an older generation of lake places than most of Lake Martin. Slips here date to the 1960s and 1970s, dug shallow to begin with, and the Halawakee Creek arm keeps feeding red clay past them. The result is the same call we get from every creek arm we serve: the boat that floated fine ten years ago now sits in mud by late summer.
Harding runs on Georgia Power’s rules rather than Alabama Power’s, so the shoreline permitting path is different paperwork through the Bartletts Ferry project office, paired with the same Corps of Engineers coverage. We handle that filing the way we handle the Alabama Power process on Martin, completed and approved before the dredge floats. The pumping itself is identical, and single slips on Harding carry the same published $2,500 to $6,000 range.
The drive from our Auburn base is twenty minutes, which makes Harding depth checks easy to schedule and keeps mobilization at the low end of the $1,500 to $4,000 band for full jobs.
Working around the generation schedule
Harding’s water level swings with generation at Bartletts Ferry more than a storage lake does, sometimes a foot or more in a day. We schedule Harding pump days around the generation pattern so the suction head keeps proper depth, one of those details that separates lake-specific crews from an excavation outfit trying dredging for a summer.
The Alabama shore of Lake Harding
Around Smiths Station the calls come from Lake Harding, the Halawakee Creek arm, Bartletts Ferry, Idle Hour Park, covering ZIP 36877. If your water is near those, odds are we have sounded a bottom within sight of it.
Get numbers for a Harding slip
The address and what the water is doing get the fastest answer. Every number comes off the public table.
Harding owners usually ask
Who approves dredging on Lake Harding, since it is not Alabama Power water?
Georgia Power, through its Bartletts Ferry shoreline management office, plus the Corps of Engineers for the dredging itself. The forms differ from the Lake Martin process but the shape is the same, and we prepare the package for you either way.
Is dredging on Harding more expensive than on Lake Martin?
No, the published ranges hold: $2,500 to $6,000 for a single slip and $4,000 to $9,000 with an approach lane. Smiths Station sits closer to our base than most of Lake Martin, so mobilization often comes in lower.
My slip is on the Halawakee arm and fills in every few years. Any permanent fix?
Nothing stops a creek from carrying clay, but two things stretch the interval: dredging past target depth so there is margin to absorb inflow, and a properly sized approach lane so the arm’s current carries load past your slip instead of into it. We design both into Halawakee jobs.
Auburn Dredging works all the water between Auburn and the lakes. See the cost guide, the permit explainer, or nearby areas: Dadeville, Alexander City, Eclectic.