Roadside Mowing

What This Service Involves

Our crews mow the vegetated margins along city and county roadways on a documented cycle that meets WSDOT roadside classification standards and local maintenance specifications. Tractor-mounted flail and rotary decks handle the dense, fast-growing grasses that thrive in the region's wet spring, while operators track cut heights to protect established groundcover and minimize bare soil. Each pass is logged with mileage, date, and equipment so public works directors have an auditable record for their maintenance management system. We coordinate lane closures and flagging under an approved traffic control plan to keep motorists and staff safe.

Benefits

Maintains clear sight distance at curves, driveways, and intersections; supports a defensible roadside maintenance record for agency audits; reduces fire fuel loading along dry summer corridors; performed under certified traffic control to protect the traveling public; scalable cycles that match your adopted level-of-service policy

Our Process

1) Confirm route mileage, cut-height specs, and level-of-service targets with the public works liaison; 2) Submit a traffic control plan and schedule mowing windows around peak traffic; 3) Mow shoulders, backslopes, and sight triangles in sequenced passes; 4) Log completed segments and deliver a GPS-referenced progress report

What Affects the Cost

Total centerline and shoulder mileage in the contract; number of mowing cycles specified per season; terrain such as steep backslopes, ditches, and guardrail edges that require secondary equipment; traffic control complexity on arterials versus low-volume streets; prevailing wage rates applicable to the jurisdiction

Best Time of Year

Primary mowing demand runs from late April through October, with the heaviest growth flush during the warm, rain-fed months of May and June across the Puget Sound region.