Land Clearing
Overgrown acreage, lots, pasture and cutover opened up with excavators, dozers, a tree shear and root rakes, or mulched in place. The debris goes out on our own trucks.
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Most of the ground in and around Citronelle is pine woods. A tract cut for timber a few years ago fills back in with sweetgum and gallberry. A lot that sat for years hides its back line in brush. Before a house or a pasture goes in, that growth has to come off.
Presto Contractors is based in Waynesboro in Wayne County, and we come about 50 miles down US 45 to Citronelle. Land clearing is the main work here, with forestry mulching for ground that will not be built on. We also do site prep for house pads, dirt work, underground utilities and demolition. Call or text (601) 410-5339, and we will look at the site and put the quote in writing.
Tell us about the land, the lot or the job. We look at the site and put the quote in writing.
USDA's 2024 land cover data maps close to 60 percent of the land around Citronelle as evergreen forest. Pasture comes next, then wooded wetland. The city limits alone take in about 26 square miles of land for fewer than 4,000 people.
The uplands roll, and some slopes run steep. The NRCS soil survey puts about seven in ten acres around town in soils that drain well. Bare sand on a slope washes in a hard rain, so we leave cleared slopes shaped to shed water.
On some low flats, the water table stands within a foot of the surface from December through March. Gallberry and saw palmetto grow under the pines there. Citronelle and Mobile County both use FEMA flood maps dated June 5, 2020. Check a lot near a branch against them before a pad goes in.
The Citronelle oil field was found in 1955. The State Oil and Gas Board of Alabama reports more than 176 million barrels of oil from it.
The Board's rules cover the ground at a well, too. Pits must be backfilled and compacted within 90 days after a well is drilled, completed or worked over. The Board's Supervisor can approve otherwise. A location also has to be stabilized against erosion and restored.
We do civil and dirt work on oil and gas locations across the south Alabama fields. That means location pads and lease roads, built and kept up, with rock hauled in on our own trucks. Site cleanup and dirt work around facilities are part of it too.
Inside the city limits, Citronelle's building department reviews the plans before it issues a building permit. The city asks new builders to meet with the building inspector before they start. The Census Bureau counted seven new single-family homes permitted in the city in 2024 and six in 2025.
Outside the city, Mobile County's Inspection Services regulates building and demolition in the unincorporated county. Any work in a county right of way, a new driveway included, needs a Mobile County right-of-way encroachment permit. We build the entrance to what that permit calls for.
Anywhere in Alabama, clearing or grading an acre or more comes under ADEM's construction stormwater permit. Coverage starts with a Notice of Intent filed with ADEM. Where there is no sewer, the septic permit comes from the county health department after a soil test. A licensed septic installer puts the system in.
Mobile County drew federal disaster declarations for Hurricane Sally and Hurricane Zeta in 2020. On March 15, 2025, an EF1 tornado touched down along County Road 96 near Citronelle, the National Weather Service found. Satellite images showed heavy damage to stretches of forest along its path into Washington County.
Downed pine across a pasture or a lease road is land clearing work. The trees get cut up, and the debris goes out on our own trucks. Where the ground has to be clean, a root rake pulls the stumps and roots. A shed or barn the storm wrecked can be taken down and hauled off, with the lot graded after.
Communities and areas we serve around Citronelle: Gulfcrest, Chunchula, Movico, Mount Vernon, Deer Park, Vinegar Bend, US 45, County Road 96, Sam Lewis Road, Citronelle Branch, Cedar Creek, Bennett Creek.
Citronelle ZIP codes served: 36522.
We come over from Waynesboro, look at the site and put the quote in writing.
(601) 410-5339 Overgrown acreage, lots, pasture and cutover opened up with excavators, dozers, a tree shear and root rakes, or mulched in place. The debris goes out on our own trucks.
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A mulching head grinds brush, saplings and small trees into mulch where they stand. The roots stay in the ground, and the mulch stays on top as cover.
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We take a raw lot to a site ready to build, with the pad built up and shaped to drain. Fill dirt and gravel come in on our own trucks.
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Excavators and dozers for cut and fill, digging, ditches, drainage and grading. Dirt comes in and goes out on our own trucks.
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We trench and lay water and sewer lines, storm pipe and culverts for houses and commercial sites. We also cut conduit trenches for your electrician and backfill them.
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We cut pasture, fields, overgrown lots and fence lines with a bush hog. Choose a one-time cleanup or seasonal mowing, with the quote in writing.
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We take down houses, mobile homes, barns and old slabs, and the debris leaves on our own trucks. Then we clear and grade the lot so it is ready for what comes next.
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Yard grading, drainage, pads, haul roads and site utilities for industrial plants and commercial sites. Our own trucks haul the rock and dirt on and off the job.
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Location pads and lease roads for oil and gas operators in the Wayne County and south Alabama fields. Rock and dirt go on and off location in our own trucks.
Learn MoreA few of the questions we hear most around Citronelle. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
Tell us about the land or the job, and text photos if you have them. Call or text (601) 410-5339 or use the form, and we will get back to you.
Tell us about the land, the lot or the job. We look at the site and put the quote in writing.