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Waterways & Countryside Management

CGM provides a full riverbank maintenance service for our clients which includes bank cutting with tractor mounted flails and a remotely operated cutting machine for inaccessible or potentially hazardous areas allowing work to be carried out safely and efficiently.

Many of our operatives hold the RYA Certificate in boat handling and we maintain and operate our own working boats as well as utilising our clients’ machinery where necessary to carry out reed bed management and clearing of waterways across Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.

Working in association with conservation authorities, private landowners and public sectors bodies, we can help you to oversee the care of rivers, streams, lakes and ponds, including maintenance of the banks and adjacent habitats.
Effective waterways management includes the careful application of approved herbicides by our NPTC qualified operatives to plants and weeds adjacent to watercourses to maintain biodiversity of desirable plants by removing invasive species.

In many areas, our countryside management brief extends to conservation work, and we always endeavour to work in harmony with the natural surroundings following our wildlife and ecology policy.

We may be asked to remove saplings to encourage the establishment of new woodland or to set up wildflower habitats and planting of new hedgerows along with maintenance of existing hedges through regular cutting.
Our excellent understanding of farming means we are well placed to help farmers and land owners to meet their obligations under the Countryside Stewardship Scheme.

We are regularly contracted by clients to carry out trimming of hedges and roadside verges or to clear footpaths to maintain public access routes and highway visibility.

Vegetation clearanceVegetation managementFootpath maintenanceStructural clearanceBank managementReed bed managementHedge flailingFencing, stiles and gate erection

For further information about waterways & countryside management please contact Chris Smith.

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 Skills used during the works: treeworks, mowing, environmental management.