Forty-one years of riprap, seawalls, and shoreline restoration on Wisconsin lakes — with a barge, the right rigging, and an owner who’s been reading these lakebeds since 1985.
You can’t drive a skid-steer down a 60-foot lake bluff. You can’t stage two tons of limestone in a neighbor’s yard. The work has to come in by water, or it doesn’t come in at all.
We run our own barge — with a small crane, a workboat, and a crew that’s been doing this together for years. That’s why we get the calls other landscapers turn down.
Limestone & fieldstone armor placed by crane from the barge. Filter fabric, proper grading, the works.
Stone, concrete, and timber seawalls — assessed, rebuilt, or replaced section-by-section.
Native plantings, erosion control, regrading. WI-DNR permits handled in-house.
Removals and pruning along the shore — when the only safe drop zone is the lake.
Coordinated work around installed piers and boat lifts. We work around your dock, not through it.
Post-storm cleanup of shoreline trees and structures. Insurance documentation provided.
Walk the property, mark the failure points, talk DNR permits.
We handle the WI-DNR Chapter 30 paperwork. Usually 4–8 weeks.
Stone barged in over 2–3 days. Filter fabric and toe stone first.
Native plantings, regrading, two-year survival check on the plants.
“Two companies said the bluff was too steep. Russ showed up with a barge, spent three weeks on it, and we haven’t lost an inch in six winters.”— D. Halverson · Lake Geneva, WI