French Drain in Shreveport
Licensed French drain installation across Shreveport, Bossier City, and Caddo/Bossier Parishes. Perforated pipe, aggregate, geotextile, and code-compliant discharge for heavy clay soils. Request a callback today.
Serving Shreveport · Caddo & Bossier Parish · Est. 2026
A local referral and advertising service matching Northwest Louisiana homeowners and businesses with independent, licensed drainage professionals — from Bossier City and Haughton to Blanchard, Benton, and Keithville. Designed for the heavy clay soils and hard-rain events that shape drainage here.
Northwest Louisiana drainage specialists · 10 services covered · LDEQ-aware · Free callbacks the same business day
Every drainage decision in Shreveport starts with the soil. NW Louisiana is dominated by plastic clay — Yazoo, Perry, Portland, and Susquehanna series soils with shrink-swell potentials that behave badly around foundations and refuse to percolate once they are wet. That reality drives which drainage systems actually work here and which ones fail within 3-5 seasons.
Shreveport also gets serious rainfall. Annual precipitation is close to 50 inches, distributed across intense summer thunderstorms, prolonged winter fronts, and the occasional tropical remnant tracking up from the Gulf. The Red River and its tributaries — Cross Bayou, Twelve Mile Bayou, Bodcau Bayou — carve floodplains that shape drainage rules for whole neighborhoods. Any drainage plan that ignores those two facts (clay + heavy rain) will not hold.
The housing stock across Caddo and Bossier Parish is a mix of century-old Highland-area homes on the bluff clay, mid-century ranches through Broadmoor and South Highlands, new construction in Twelve Oaks, Norris Ferry, and the Bossier growth corridor, and rural properties out toward Blanchard, Stonewall, and Keithville. Each has different drainage stories. Older homes almost universally need a foundation-side regrade and downspout burial before anything else. New-construction lots often need full drainage rework because builder-grade swales and rough-graded lots rarely handle the first wet season. Rural properties frequently need engineered dry wells or discharge planning across large acreage. The coordinated network handles all of it.
Licensed French drain installation across Shreveport, Bossier City, and Caddo/Bossier Parishes. Perforated pipe, aggregate, geotextile, and code-compliant discharge for heavy clay soils. Request a callback today.
Licensed yard drainage across Shreveport, Bossier City, and Caddo/Bossier Parishes. Surface drains, swales, dry wells, French drains, and regrading for heavy clay soils. Request a callback today.
Foundation drainage across Shreveport and Bossier City. Exterior curtain drains, interior perimeter drains, sump systems, and negative-grade correction for slab, crawlspace, and pier-and-beam homes on NW Louisiana clay.
Catch basin and trench-channel drain installation across Shreveport and Bossier City. NDS, Zurn, and Polylok systems for yards, driveways, patios, and pool decks. Sized for NW Louisiana rainfall.
Buried downspout extensions, catch basins for roof runoff, and pop-up emitter installation across Shreveport and Bossier City. Highest-leverage first pass for most yard drainage problems.
Sump pump installation for crawlspace, basement, and yard applications across Shreveport and Bossier City. Cast-iron primary + battery-backup, professional basin sizing, code-compliant discharge. Request a callback.
Yard grading and regrading services across Shreveport and Bossier City. Positive-grade correction, swale cutting, sod re-lay. The foundational drainage fix — often solves the problem before you spend on trench work.
Diagnose and repair failing drainage systems across Shreveport and Bossier City. Clogged French drains, collapsed pipe, failed sumps, silted catch basins. Request a callback for evaluation.
Commercial drainage across Shreveport and Bossier City: parking lot catch basins, trench drains, retention ponds, LDEQ stormwater compliance. Engineered systems for retail, industrial, and municipal sites.
Erosion control and standing water solutions across Shreveport and Bossier City. Slope stabilization, riprap, erosion blankets, retaining walls, and vegetative solutions for NW Louisiana clay slopes.
You submit the form. A local coordinator reads it the same business day — usually within a couple of hours during business hours — and phones you back with next steps. If it's active foundation seepage or a sump alarm, we fast-track the call to a crew with an open slot. If it's a scoped project (French drain, yard rework, sump install), we book a site walkover for a window that works for you.
What separates a drainage system that lasts 20-40 years from one that fails in 3-5:
The coordinated network covers Caddo Parish and Bossier Parish in full, plus edges of DeSoto Parish south of Shreveport. Communities served:
Bossier Parish. Bossier City is Shreveport's twin across the Red River — flat river-terrace lots on the east side, mixed drainage patterns as you move east into subdivisions like Willow Ridge, The
Bossier Parish. Haughton sits east of Bossier City along US-80, with a mix of older established properties and newer subdivisions like Cypress Bend and Bellaire. Larger lots, more clay, and rural
Bossier Parish. Benton, the Bossier Parish seat, sits north of Bossier City on rolling terrain that drops toward the Bodcau bayou to the east. Larger residential lots and light commercial along LA
Caddo Parish. Blanchard is a small Caddo Parish community northwest of Shreveport, characterized by larger acreage properties and rural drainage — pond runoff, seasonal seeps, and yards big enou
Caddo Parish. Greenwood sits west of Shreveport near the Texas line along I-20. A mix of long-established residential and newer construction, with the clay-heavy soils and periodic Twelve Mile B
DeSoto Parish (edge of Caddo). Stonewall sits south of Shreveport along US-171, on the DeSoto Parish line. Rolling lots and larger acreage properties dominate. Drainage work here often involves managing runoff a
Caddo Parish. Keithville is a rural Caddo Parish community south of Shreveport. Wooded lots, larger acreage, and drainage patterns influenced by nearby Wallace Lake mean French drains, curtain d
Residential drainage that discharges on the owner's own property is largely unregulated in NW Louisiana — the reason is that most single-family jobs stay well below thresholds. Where the rules do bite:
Any licensed contractor working across the metro handles these paperwork obligations as part of the job, not as an afterthought.
A residential French drain in Shreveport typically runs $40-$70 per linear foot for a yard-depth install, or $70-$120 per foot for foundation-depth curtain drains. A whole-yard drainage plan (French drain, catch basins, downspout burial, small regrade) commonly lands between $6,000 and $15,000. See the full cost guide for line-item ranges.
Yes. The coordinated network covers Shreveport, Bossier City, Haughton, Benton, Blanchard, Greenwood, Stonewall, and Keithville, plus rural addresses across Caddo and Bossier Parish. Wait times may be a day longer in outlying communities.
A French drain is a subsurface system — perforated pipe in aggregate — that dries out saturated soil across an area. A yard (surface) drain is a catch basin at a specific low point that catches concentrated surface runoff. Most whole-yard plans use both. See our comparison guide.
The five common causes are: negative grading toward the house, unburied downspouts dumping at the wall, compacted clay soils that won't percolate, low pockets with no outlet, and runoff coming in from a neighboring lot. See the full breakdown for which one is probably yours.
Yes. Commercial work involves LDEQ stormwater compliance, City of Shreveport engineering review, and (for lots over one acre) a stamped SWPPP. The referral network includes both licensed civil engineers and installers. See commercial drainage.
Most single-family residential French drains that discharge onto the owner's own property do not require a permit. Tying into City of Shreveport storm systems, or working on commercial lots over LDEQ site-disturbance thresholds, does require review. Your contractor advises.
A downspout burial and small regrade is often a one-day job. A residential French drain with discharge is 1-2 days. A foundation curtain drain with sump is 3-5 days. Whole-yard drainage plans with multiple components run 5-10 working days.
Payment plans may be available on qualifying installs through the assigned licensed contractor. Terms are subject to credit approval; specifics discussed at quote time. See our financing disclosure.
In NW Louisiana clay, yes. The swell-shrink cycle in wet-then-dry clay is what drives most residential foundation movement here. Controlling water at the wall is the cheapest structural insurance on a Shreveport home. See standing water near the foundation.
Yes, a large share of our repair work is failed installs from other contractors. Diagnostics (camera inspection + clean-outs) come first, then targeted repair or full redo depending on materials. See drainage repair.
Shreveport Drainage is a local referral and advertising service. We are not a drainage contractor and we do not perform drainage work. What we do is connect Northwest Louisiana property owners with independent, licensed drainage professionals — LDEQ-aware, insured, and locally dispatched — and stand behind the coordination through completion. The parent entity is Cosmic Phoenix LLC (Cheyenne, WY).
Our compensation comes from the contractors we refer to, not from the homeowner. There's no upcharge on your quote for using us. If a job doesn't get resolved, we escalate on your behalf: that's the actual value of a coordinated referral service versus finding a name from the phone book.
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Tell us what's going on. A local coordinator answers within one business day — usually the same afternoon.
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