Ground secured
Structural Control
Retaining walls solve real site problems, stabilizing slopes, holding grade, and turning unusable terrain into structured, workable landscape space.
Service Overview
A slope that can't be planted over needs to be held. Grade pressure doesn't resolve itself, and on Alabama properties with real elevation change, an undersized or poorly drained wall will move.
Edmonds Environmental starts with the ground before selecting any material. Excavation depth, drainage path, soil pressure, and base preparation are all determined by the site. The wall system and finish material come after that. A wall that performs for twenty years and one that shifts in three are built differently from the first shovel of dirt.
Built from the base
Base First
Wall performance depends on excavation, base prep, drainage layers, and structural logic long before the finish material is visible.
Structure tied to the site
Slope Integrated
The strongest wall work ties into planting, access, and drainage so the completed site feels resolved rather than engineered in isolation.
The full site made usable
Site Support
Walls should improve circulation, create usable terraces, protect adjacent work, and support the broader site plan rather than acting as a one-off intervention.
Walls we build
The right wall system depends on the site, the load it needs to carry, and how it has to read against the property. Edmonds Environmental works across the following systems:
Segmental retaining walls
Interlocking concrete block systems (Belgard, Techo-Bloc, Unilock) engineered for residential and commercial grade retention. Most common choice for terracing and property borders.
Natural stone walls
Dry-stacked or mortared fieldstone, limestone, or boulder systems. Selected for sites where the wall needs to belong to the landscape as much as it performs structurally.
Gabion walls
Wire baskets filled with stone. Effective for erosion control and drainage-heavy sites where a softer visual edge is appropriate.
What it includes
Assessment
Slope analysis, soil conditions, load requirements, and drainage path established before wall system or material is selected.
Construction
Excavation, base preparation, wall system installation, and backfill handled as one structural scope.
Drainage
Water management built into the wall from the start. The drainage design is what determines whether a wall holds for five years or twenty.
Closer Looks
Selected Works
See how retaining walls support circulation, planting, and usable terraces when they are designed as part of the full property rather than in isolation.
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