Controlling and removing harmful invasive and injurious weeds to protect biodiversity, livestock and people
Whilst nature is at the heart of everything we do, there are occasions where we’re required to treat vegetation with herbicides to ensure functionality of assets, that grasslands are thriving, to prevent injury to animals or humans and damage to assets.
Chevron Green Services supports clients through our environmental consultants who proactively or reactively survey and identify sites. Following the site survey, we provide detailed reports, supported with GIS data to allow us to provide comprehensive management plans. Our consultants then work collaboratively with our operations teams to confirm treatment methodologies if required.
We commonly identify and treat many plants listed in Schedule 9 of the Weeds Act to prevent injury to animals and humans and damage to assets, including: Japanese knotweed, Giant Hogweed and Himalayan balsam. The location of the species often dictates the proposed treatment methodology. The treatment methodology is determined to reduce damage to other plants, animals and the environment, positioned so that it will only treat the targeted species.
Infrequently, where pest species are impacting vegetation, pose a hazard to humans or are impacting assets, our operations teams are requested to remove these pest species from site. The most frequent species we’re required to carry out treatment on are; brown tail moth and rats. Each species has its own treatment plan with many factors informing our approach.
We can control and remove invasive weeds from any location including urban areas, open spaces, parks, towns, railway banks, wastelands and riverbanks. Our trained workforce can deal with any weeds that are encountered in the UK.
Weed control case study
Ringway Infrastructure Services
Chevron Green Services used their knowledge and expertise to utilise appropriate treatment methodologies depending on where the knotweed was and how advanced it was. All new instances of Japanese Knotweed were recorded on our data management system Re-flow and passed onto both Ringway Infrastructure Services and National Highways for logging and future management.
Download the A47 Japanese Knotweed removal case study (PDF) to find out more >
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