When water pools in your yard, runs toward your foundation, or floods a low spot every winter, it is not just a nuisance, it is a threat to your landscape, your hardscape, and your home. Clearview Landscaping builds drainage systems that solve the problem at the source for homeowners throughout Montecito and the greater Santa Barbara area.

We have spent over 20 years diagnosing and fixing drainage on the South Coast, and we handle every part of the job: finding where the water comes from, engineering the right system, and building it to last.

Drainage Problems We Solve

Standing Water & Soggy Lawns, Yards that never fully dry out, pooling after every rain, and turf that stays waterlogged. We regrade and install drainage that carries water away.

Water Near the Foundation, The most urgent one. Water collecting against your home threatens the foundation and slab. We intercept and redirect it before it does damage.

French Drains & Subsurface Drainage, Properly built french drains, gravel, fabric, and perforated pipe sized and sloped correctly, to pull water out of the ground where it collects.

Grading & Regrading, Often the real fix. We reshape the land so water moves away from structures instead of toward them.

Storm & Flood Response, When a storm overwhelms your yard, we respond fast to protect the home and then build a permanent solution. See our emergency drainage and flood response service.

Dry Creeks, Catch Basins & Downspout Drainage, The full toolkit for moving water across a property cleanly, and attractively, from catch basins to decorative dry creeks that double as landscape features.

Why Montecito Drainage Is Different

Montecito sits on heavy clay soils at the base of the Santa Ynez foothills, which means winter storms send real water down the slopes and toward homes. Estate lots, mature oaks, and hillside grades all change how that water has to be managed. A french drain that works on a flat lot will not protect a home built into a slope.

We have solved drainage across Montecito, from the Upper Village to the estates near the coast, and we understand the conditions: clay that holds water instead of absorbing it, slopes that concentrate runoff, oak root zones that cannot be trenched carelessly, and foundations that need real protection before the rainy season. Every system we build is engineered for the specific grade and soil it sits on.

Serving Montecito & the Santa Barbara Coast

We serve homeowners throughout Montecito and the surrounding coast, including the Upper and Lower Village, Hot Springs, Riven Rock, the Hedgerow district, and the estate neighborhoods toward Hope Ranch and Summerland. Whether your property is an estate or a family home, we bring the same engineering and craftsmanship to protecting it from water.

Water damage gets worse and more expensive the longer it waits. Schedule a free drainage assessment and we will find the problem and give you a real plan to fix it.