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Rotary cutting for overgrown fields, pastures, vacant lots and fence lines across southeastern North Carolina.
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Land clearing in Leland, NC means working on some of the fastest-growing ground in the state. Leland is the largest town in Brunswick County. It grew from 22,908 people in 2020 to an estimated 35,731 in July 2025. The county grew 24 percent from 2020 to 2024, the fastest in North Carolina. Nearly all of that housing went up on wooded lots cleared and graded first. Coastal Brush Mowing is based in Burgaw and has cleared land across southeastern North Carolina since 2013.
Leland sits across the Cape Fear and Brunswick rivers from Wilmington. US-17 meets US-74/76 here, and I-140 loops north to I-40. From Burgaw the drive is about 30 miles, around 40 minutes. We clear infill lots in and around Brunswick Forest, Compass Pointe, Magnolia Greens and Waterford of the Carolinas. We also take on older parcels off NC-133 and Village Road, and small acreage toward Winnabow and Town Creek. The same trips cover our work across the river in Wilmington.
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Most of the work here is wooded infill lots. In September 2025 the town annexed more than 1,200 acres at Jackeys Creek, near Brunswick Forest, for about 6,000 homes. In December 2025 it approved Terrapin Landing off US-74/76 at Malmo Loop Road. That 955-acre project brings 3,398 homes and a Novant Health hospital. The finished communities still have wooded lots between homes. We take the trees down and pull the stumps with the excavator. Footings and utility trenches are excavation work for Leland lots.
Older parcels along NC-133, Lanvale Road and the streets off Village Road are a different job. Many grew back into a wall of pine, sweetgum, wax myrtle and greenbrier. Small acreage toward Winnabow and Town Creek often gets a mix. We cut the pad and driveway path, then run forestry mulching over the rest so trees stay and brush goes. Brush and wood get piled on site or loaded in the dump truck and hauled off. An old house or mobile home comes down as demolition.
Leland has its own tree rule. On parcels larger than 20,000 square feet, town code section 66-254 requires town approval before a significant tree comes down. That means a hardwood or conifer 24 inches in diameter or larger. Dogwood, American holly and other flowering trees count at 8 inches. Cutting one without approval can delay a building permit by three to five years. The town is rewriting its rules into a Unified Development Ordinance in 2026, so check the current rules first.
In the unincorporated county around Leland, and in Belville, the county stormwater ordinance applies. The county requires a stormwater permit for residential work that disturbs more than an acre. It also requires one when grading, filling or excavating changes the elevation by more than 4 inches. Any disturbance within 30 feet of a natural stream needs one too. Statewide, disturbing an acre or more needs an approved erosion and sedimentation control plan. We sort out which rules apply when we see the property.
The Brunswick County soil survey maps much of the higher ground around the town center as Baymeade fine sand. That sand is well drained, with the water table 4 to 5 feet down. Around Brunswick Forest and toward Compass Pointe it maps Foreston loamy fine sand, water table 2.5 to 3.5 feet down. The low flats hold poorly drained soils like Leon fine sand, wet at or near the surface. In all three, the survey says ditch banks cave and seepage runs high.
We clear first, then shape the pad and driveway path so water runs to a swale or ditch. That is grading and dirt work: cut the high spots, fill the low ones. Leland's own CAMA land use plan puts about 62 percent of local soils in the two slow-draining runoff groups. Sturgeon, Jackeys, Town and Mallory creeks drain the town and back up in heavy rain. A September 2024 storm flooded US-17. The town put a $344,000 state grant into clearing Jackeys Creek near Lanvale Road.
Communities & areas we serve around Leland: Brunswick Forest, Compass Pointe, Magnolia Greens, Waterford of the Carolinas, Westport, Grayson Park, Mallory Creek, Windsor Park.
Leland ZIP codes served: 28451, 28479.
Rotary cutting for overgrown fields, pastures, vacant lots and fence lines across southeastern North Carolina.
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Excavation for building pads, trenches, culverts and drainage cuts. We dig it, load it out, and leave the ground at the grade your plan calls for.
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Houses, mobile homes, sheds, barns and old slabs taken down and hauled away, with the ground left clean and level.
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Land grading, house pads, gravel driveways and drainage swales across Pender County. We cut and fill the ground so water runs off it and away from the house.
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We grind underbrush and small trees into mulch on site, so the wood stays as ground cover.
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We dig and shape ponds on residential and rural land across Pender, New Hanover, Onslow, Brunswick and Duplin counties. That covers farm ponds on private land and retention ponds on commercial sites.
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Gravel driveway installation, regrading, parking pads and farm lanes across Pender County, built on fabric and packed ABC stone that sheds water.
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Driveway culvert installation, culvert replacement, ditching and drainage swales across Pender County, so standing water leaves your lot and the drive stays dry.
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Land to clear, an old structure to take down, brush that's won too many summers, or a pond you've been thinking about for years? Call or send the form. We come look at the property with you and the estimate is free, from a company that has worked this ground since 2013.
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