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Vegetation Management

Waterflow has dedicated vegetation management teams delivering cost effective hassle free vegetation management services to infrastructure asset owners such as LUL and TFL.  Vegetation Management services were originally developed by Waterflow to enable the effective delivery of our other services.

Using the most effective plant and applying Asset Management principals Waterflow have delivered customers significant cost savings and operational improvements.

Clearing vegetation on the rail infrastructure in tight time scales and physical space constraints demands high productivity, manoeuvrability and safety. We invest in training, equipment and technology to deliver productivity, cost, safety and environmental benefits.

Key aspects of our vegetation management works include:

• Ensuring clear signal sight-lines
• Removing unwanted weeds/vegetation from sidings / Walking routes
• Managing vegetation to minimise autumn mitigation works
• Removal of vegetation in proximity of OHLE
• Tree Surgery to minimise risk and environmental impact
• Disposal of cuttings with minimal environmental impact
• 'Flail Strip' services for high speed clearance of hard to reach areas
• Control of Noxious Weeds such as Japanese Knotweed and Giant Hogweed to prevent spread on and off the infrastructure.

People
Multi-skilled teams include operatives fully trained in track safety (Network Rail and LUL) including:

• NPTC qualified arbourists
• NPTC qualified groundsman
• trained climbers
• trained chainsaw operatives
• trained herbicide spray operatives
• all operatives are trained in the use of chippers
• first aid trained operatives
• fully kitted with own store of equipment.

On site operations supported by professional asset management service providing planning and reporting services.

Typical activities

• Vegetation clearance and removal on track and in depots
• Tree felling, crowning, pollarding, coppicing
• Tree planting and maintenance
• Landscaping and maintenance of trackside embankments
• On and off-track weed-killing / herbicide spraying
• On-track leaf clearing and sandite application
• Japanese knotweed and giant hogweed treatment and removal
• Fence and barbed wire repairs, replacements and installations
• Debris, rubbish and waste removal
• Removal and disposal of fly tipping
• Contaminated waste disposal
• Graffiti clearing
• Dead animal removal

Associated services
Flood management, Fence installation and repair, Remote inspection, CCTV Inspection, Ground stabilisation, Specialist robotic cutting above and below ground, gully clearance