Utility Corridor Maintenance

What This Service Involves

We maintain the vegetated corridors over and around buried and overhead utilities, keeping access roads passable and maintaining clearance from vaults, pedestals, hydrants, and poles. Our integrated vegetation management approach balances mowing, selective removal, and documented invasive control to meet the reliability and safety obligations utility departments carry. In Western Washington, unmanaged corridors quickly fill with alder and blackberry that block emergency access and hide leaks or damage. All work is coordinated with utility locates and logged for compliance and asset records.

Benefits

Preserves emergency and maintenance access along easements; maintains required clearance around utility structures; supports reliability and safety compliance obligations; controls corridor invasives through an integrated program; coordinates with locates to protect buried infrastructure

Our Process

1) Review corridor maps, utility features, and clearance requirements; 2) Confirm locates and mobilize with access and traffic controls; 3) Mow and selectively clear the corridor to specified clearances; 4) Log treated invasives and deliver a corridor maintenance record

What Affects the Cost

Corridor length, width, and number of utility structures; required clearance distances and access-road condition; extent of invasive infestation; locate and utility-coordination overhead; scheduled maintenance frequency

Best Time of Year

Corridor maintenance is cycled through the growing season, with priority access-road work in spring so easements stay passable during winter emergency response.