Watercourse Management and Maintenance

Skilled operated plant equipment, specialist 19 tonne, 15 meter reach, reduced swing long reach excavator E. Carnaby & Son Plant Hire' for weed cutting, mulching, desilting, digging, ditching and tree sheer

Watercourse management

We have over 50 years experience in:

  • Watercourse bed regrading

  • Reprofiling of banks

  • Flail mowing of banks

  • Weed control

  • De-silting

  • Watercourse construction and realignment

  • Culvert construction and replacement

  • Bank stabilisation: piling and gabion baskets, coir rolls and matting

  • Installation of natural flood management interventions, leaky barriers and field bunds

  • Bushing works (removal of overhanging tree branches, limbs and hedge reduction) to enable dyke maintenance

    We supply our services to:

    Local landowners

    The Environment Agency 

    The Ancholme Internal Drainage Board

    The North East Lindsey Internal Drainage Board

    The Scunthorpe & Gainsborough Water Management Board

    Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust

    Lincolnshire Chalk Streams Project

    Lincolnshire County Council

    North Lincolnshire Council

    North East Lincolnshire Council (Equans)

    Natural England

    ABP (Associated British Ports)

    PD Ports

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before picture of construction equipment prior to bank reforming works. Hitachi 135W with tiltrotator, GPS, towing and tipping trailer, height limiter. JCB 160 tracked excavator with GPS, tiltrotator and height limiter
before picture of ditch prior to bank reformation with plant equipment in the back ground
picture of bank reprofile in water course management project
picture of bank reprofile with grass growth following water course management project
Construction work, top soil strip and neatly stock piled next to ditch prior to reprofiling bank works by skilled operated excavators with tiltrotators and GPS
A ditch and surrounding fields prior to construction work including reprofiling works of ditch bank by skilled operated excavators with tiltrotators and GPS and construction and installation of manhole.
Excavator with tiltrotator and excavator mounted weed cutting basket, next to water course on grassy field during sunset, mowing and collecting grass in a canal.
Skilled operated excavator working on reprofiling of ditch banks and culvert works