Hydroseeding in Salt Lake City, UT

Hydroseeding in Salt Lake City starts with the ground itself. The valley floor is the old bed of Lake Bonneville, and its shorelines still show as terraces on the foothills and benches above the city. A west-side lot near the Jordan River sits around 4,210 feet, while homes in the Avenues and Federal Heights climb a sloped bench into the Wasatch foothills. Those two settings call for different seed mixes, different mulch rates and different thinking about runoff.

Dry summers, wet springs

The airport averages 15.52 inches of precipitation a year, but July brings only about half an inch and August not much more. April is the wettest spring month at 2.16 inches. For a new hydroseed lawn that means spring and early fall are the friendly windows. A July seeding is possible, but it lives or dies on irrigation, and we plan the watering schedule with you before the tank is ever filled.

Canyon water and the east side

City Creek, Emigration, Millcreek and Parley's canyons all border the city on the east. Spring snowmelt can push creeks out of their banks in late spring and early summer; City Creek did it badly in 1983, when downtown streets were turned into channels. On foothill lots below those drainages, the steep parts usually get bonded fiber matrix or a pinned blanket, and we keep swales open so water has somewhere to go besides your new seedbed.

Permits near creeks

Salt Lake County's construction stormwater rules reach further than many homeowners expect. A state construction permit and a stormwater pollution prevention plan apply to work that disturbs an acre or more, but also to work of any size within 50 feet of regulated wetlands or surface water, or inside the Salt Lake City watershed. If your project is near a creek, we talk through silt fence, inlet protection and sediment control before any grading starts.

Old ditches and heavy clay

The valley once had more than a hundred canal systems, and old irrigation ditches still show up in eastern neighborhoods. Lakebed clay and sand sit under much of the city. We check for buried ditch lines and compacted layers during yard grading, and we add topsoil where the subgrade is too tight for roots.

Where we help in the city

• New lawn installation after a remodel or infill build
• Hydromulch and slope stabilization on foothill lots
• Fence and drain protection on infill and redevelopment sites
• Lawn repair and overseeding on older west-side and Sugar House yards

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