Water features · Charlottesville, VA
Pond and water feature builder in Charlottesville, VA
Jordan's Water Garden Solutions builds koi ponds, pondless waterfalls and fountainscapes in Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Crozet included, about seventy miles west of its Richmond base on I-64. Jordan Blanton, an Aquascape Certified Contractor, has built ponds in Charlottesville and still makes the drive for new ones. Koi ponds start at $275 per square foot, pondless waterfalls at $2,000 per linear foot and fountainscapes at $5,300. A spring clean-out on a pond you already have starts at $925.
$275per square foot, koi ponds to start
Where around Charlottesville
Charlottesville, Albemarle County and Crozet
Charlottesville is the far edge of where Jordan works, an hour and a bit west of Richmond up I-64. He has built there before, and the ground out here suits what he builds: it rolls, and water likes a slope.
Charlottesville
Jordan has built ponds in Charlottesville and will build more. City yards are often on the small side, which is where a fountainscape or a short pondless stream earns its keep: the sound of water a few steps from the back door without giving the whole garden to it. Where there is room, a koi pond in Charlottesville gets the same ecosystem build as one in Richmond, with a deep zone, a skimmer and rock over every inch of liner.
Albemarle County
Albemarle wraps around the city, and the land is Piedmont: it rises and falls. A slope is a gift to a pond builder. A stream can step down the grade in real drops instead of a built-up mound at the end of a flat yard, and the sound carries uphill to the porch. Water features in Albemarle County tend to be streams for that reason, with a pond at the bottom if the owner wants fish.
Crozet
Crozet sits west of town at the foot of the Blue Ridge, and Jordan builds water features in Crozet, VA on the same trip as Charlottesville. A pondless waterfall against a backdrop of the mountains is hard to argue with, and a quiet water garden with lilies does as well out here as anywhere he works.
What Jordan does here
The full list, seventy miles from home
Every service on this site is available in Charlottesville and Albemarle County at the same starting prices as in Richmond. The drive is the one thing that changes, and Jordan puts it in the quote on the call rather than in a surprise later.
Koi ponds
Ecosystem koi ponds with a deep zone, a skimmer and a biological filter. From $275 per square foot.
Pondless waterfalls
Built for Albemarle slopes: a stream stepping down the grade into a hidden basin. From $2,000 per linear foot.
Fountainscapes
An urn or spillway bowl for a small city yard, running on a hidden reservoir. A single fountain from $5,300.
Water gardens
Lilies and marginal plants first, fish if you want them, frogs whether you want them or not.
Pond cleaning and maintenance
Clean-outs, service visits and plans for ponds around Charlottesville, whoever built them.
Maintenance plans
The year's visits on one schedule, planned around the drive. Quoted on the call.
Spring clean-out
Drain, wash the rock, vacuum the bottom and restart the filters. From $925.
Fall clean-out and netting
Netting before the leaves drop and a service visit after. From $725.
Pump repair and replacement
A quiet pump, a weak waterfall or a tripped breaker, diagnosed and fixed. Service calls from $275.
Leak detection and repair
Find the leak before replacing anything, including the ones that turn out to be evaporation.
Pond upgrades
A waterfall added to your pond from $950 per linear foot. A bowl, wetland filter or skimmer is priced on your consultation call.
Pond care in the Piedmont
What a Charlottesville pond deals with
Charlottesville runs a little cooler than Richmond and the ground is a lot hillier, but the pond year is the same one. Summer is hot and humid, the surface loses water to evaporation every week from June into September, and the first question most owners have in August is whether that drop is a leak. Usually it is the weather. Jordan tells you what to expect so you can tell the difference.
A slope changes where the water comes from. A summer thunderstorm on a hillside yard sends runoff downhill, and if the pond sits in the low spot it catches mulch and whatever was on the lawn. Jordan sets the pond and stream where they look like they belong and shapes the edges so the storm goes around rather than in.
Fall under Albemarle's oaks and maples is a leaf drop like anywhere in Virginia, and a pond with nothing to catch it fills with them. A net in October and a service visit when the trees are bare keep the bottom clean through winter.
Winters are mild with a few more cold nights than Richmond gets. Most ponds here run all year. The waterfall keeps a hole in the ice, the fish settle near the bottom, and the pond is still there to look at when the mountains have snow on them.
Herons work the rivers and ponds around Charlottesville like they do everywhere else, so the koi get a deep zone and cover under the rock from the first drawing.
The estimate
How a Charlottesville estimate works
The calculator gives you the range for the pond itself. The call adds the drive from Richmond, and the site visit turns the range into a figure.
Run the calculator
Pick the project, answer Jordan's five questions and give the size. Koi ponds and waterfalls show a range fifteen percent either side of the base number, rounded to the nearest $500. Fountainscapes show Jordan's fixed ranges.
A free phone call
Jordan goes through the range, asks about the slope and the access, and quotes the drive out to Charlottesville as part of the number. Photos of the yard texted to the same number help him plan it.
The site visit
Jordan marks the pond or stream on the ground in Albemarle, you walk the shape and choose the stone, and the range becomes a figure.
Questions
What Charlottesville homeowners ask
Anything else, ask Jordan on the call.
Do you come to Crozet?
Yes. Jordan's Water Garden Solutions builds and services ponds in Charlottesville, across Albemarle County and out to Crozet, on the same trip west from Richmond.
Is there a travel charge for Charlottesville?
The drive is part of the quote Jordan's Water Garden Solutions gives on the phone call. Charlottesville is about seventy miles from Richmond, so Jordan builds that into the number up front rather than adding it later.
Do you service ponds in Albemarle County that someone else built?
Yes. Jordan's Water Garden Solutions cleans, repairs and upgrades ponds in Charlottesville and Albemarle County whoever built them. A spring clean-out starts at $925 and a service call at $275. See pond cleaning and maintenance.
How soon can you come out to Charlottesville?
Jordan sets the schedule on the phone call. Spring fills first with clean-outs, and Jordan's Water Garden Solutions groups its Charlottesville and Albemarle work so the drive makes sense, so the earlier you call the better the slot.
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Estimate calculator
See what your pond in Charlottesville would cost
A few quick questions, one at a time, and a price range on the spot. Then pick a time for a free phone consultation with Jordan.