Some of the steepest, rockiest lots on the Shuswap are out in Eagle Bay — and that's the ground we do our best work on. Walls, flagstone, and stonework that turn a hard slope into usable space.
Steep, rocky, or lakefront — that's our ground.
Everything Earth builds retaining walls, boulder rockwork, flagstone patios and landscape lighting on Eagle Bay's steep, rocky lots. Eagle Bay is unincorporated and sits in Columbia Shuswap Regional District Electoral Area C, so a retaining wall permit comes from the CSRD. Twenty-five years of setting stone on ground most crews won't quote.
Eagle Bay lots are steep and full of rock — which is a problem for most crews and an opportunity for us. Rock is what we do. We use what's already on your property, set it so it holds, and turn the slope you can't use into the part of the yard you live in.
The Columbia Shuswap Regional District. Eagle Bay stayed in Electoral Area C when the South Shuswap was split in November 2022 — Blind Bay and Sorrento went to the new Area G, Eagle Bay did not. Either way it's the CSRD's building department, and Part 11 of Building Bylaw No. 660-3 requires a permit for any retaining wall you build or structurally repair.
The threshold is a wall exceeding 1.22 m above the lower of natural or finished grade. On Eagle Bay's gradients that is a low bar: the drop across a single lot often means a wall that reads as waist-high at one end is well past the threshold at the other, and the bylaw measures the wall, not the average. A series of terraces counts as one wall if any of them break a line drawn 1.22 m above the base of the lowest and projected back at one vertical to 1.5 horizontal.
Rock changes the economics here in a way it doesn't in town. Excavating a conventional footing into bedrock is expensive; setting large stone into the grade often is not, because the material is already on the property. That is why so much of our Eagle Bay work is hand-placed boulder rockwork rather than block — it suits the ground, and it suits the budget. We tell you which one your lot wants before you commit to either.
Bylaws change. Confirm current requirements with the CSRD before you build — or ask us and we'll confirm for you.
Retaining walls set into the slope, a flagstone patio, artificial turf and custom landscape lighting — a complete outdoor space on a demanding lot.
Hand-placed local stone that looks like it's always been there — because it's set into the grade, not stacked on top of it.
That's usually the one we want. Send a photo or call — we'll tell you what it needs and what it'll cost.
