Outcome — Seven Points
Boatable Depth Reclaimed in Seven Points, TX
Pull cubic yards of sediment, get your draft back.
Mechanical and hydraulic dredging sized to your watershed, volume, and disposal options. We document before and after with depth probes so members or owners can see the result.
Boatable Depth Reclaimed in Seven Points: what to expect
The eastern-arm pockets at Seven Points — Long Cove, Hidden Cove, and the smaller protected fingers off the Hwy 274 corridor — collect fine sediment faster than the open main body because lower wave energy lets suspended material drop out and settle. Since TRWD holds Cedar Creek at a steady raw-water elevation, a mechanical dredge can cut to one fixed target depth across the whole slip, and the before/after depth probes are directly comparable with no waterline correction.
- We sonar-map the cove plume before mobilizing — accumulation in Hidden Cove and Long Cove is rarely even, and targeting the dense zone saves both cubic yards and barge hours.
- The dredge scope on Cedar Creek clears through TRWD's shoreline-alteration permit, which we file and manage for the owner.
- Sandy soil over the Henderson County clay sublayer means dewatered spoils can usually be re-graded into the owner's shoreline yard instead of trucked off-site, cutting disposal cost.
- Pairing a bulkhead repair in front of the slip stops fresh sediment from sliding straight back into the cut — common on the silted eastern-arm pockets where the bank is actively shedding fines.
- TRWD's stable pool lets us hold one consistent finished depth across the full cut, documented with post-dredge probe readings handed to the owner.
How this plays out around Seven Points
Seven Points is the crossroads town where Hwys 274 and 334 meet on the southern half of Cedar Creek Lake — central enough that we mobilize through here for a third of our Cedar Creek work.
Seven Points covers a wide bank classification on TRWD's shoreline map — open-water frontage on the main body, sheltered coves on the eastern arm, and tight residential runs near the Hwy 274 bridge. That variation means dock specs differ block by block: deeper pilings and breakwater geometry on the open frontage, lighter rigid systems in the protected coves. Sandy soil over clay sublayer makes Henderson County–standard retaining wall drainage work as designed without extra French-drain capacity.