C.E. Pontz Sons Landscape Construction

About C.E. Pontz Sons Landscape Construction

Lancaster is a city built out of laid stone and set brick — front walks, garden steps, the paved squares behind old townhouses — and every one of those surfaces behaves differently under snow. C.E. Pontz Sons Landscape Construction clears them through the winter: plowing drives and lots, shoveling walks and stone landings by hand where a blade has no business, and de-icing with an eye to what the surface is made of. A cleared brick path with the joints still crisp in March is its own small argument for doing it patiently. Storms roll into the county from the northwest and are often finished before dawn, which is the hour the crew likes best anyway. Quiet street, clean stone, nothing left behind but tire tracks.