"SLASHBUSTER"®
Flood Control Equipment Gallery
These images are from a drainage district in southern Texas that has the responsibility of preventing floods in an area that is only 6 feet above sea level.
The excavator walks on top of moveable wooden pads to decrease ground disturbance on the sensitive riverbank.
Shredding the last remaining row of
trees. You can see what the cleared vegetation used to look like by comparing the opposite side of the river.
Shredded debris is raked to above the
high water level to prevent it from clogging the drainage during high flow of events.
Mulching
on the other side of the drainage with a Slashbuster® mounted on a long reach excavator, then raking debris out of the channel.
Treated versus untreated drainage bank. Eliminating vegetation in this flood control project will decrease the resistance to water flowand allow the area to drain freely without flooding.
Previously
choked with vegetation, this channel
is now clear. The debris has been
raked by the equipment to the top of the drainage to avoid clogging culverts.
A similar
channel pleasantly "greens up"
a few months after treatment with "SLASHBUSTER"® equipment.
