Clear Island Waters
Tree removal in Clear Island Waters
Tree removal, palm removal and stump grinding in Clear Island Waters, from the gated localities to the canal frontages.
Tree work in Clear Island Waters
Locality gates and a lock on the canals
In Clear Island Waters, land access is controlled by gates to some of the localities, the Isle of Istana being a notable example, and places such as Island Quays, Rhode Island and Santa Cruz carry their own names. Inside a gated locality, the truck, chipper and stump grinder get in only when a resident or manager opens the gate. Access, parking and timing are settled before the job is booked.
The canal estates were rural wetland until the early 1990s, and much of Boobegan Creek was taken into the suburb, with a lock to control the suburb's water level near the creek's mouth. Holding the canals at a set level keeps wet ground close to the surface on the lots beside them. Trees there root shallow and wide and are more likely to go over in a storm, and a stump at the water's edge is ground out of soft, wet soil.
Blocks run large here. Setting aside lots smaller than 250 square metres, the City Plan's property boundaries give Clear Island Waters a median lot of 886 square metres, larger than in Broadbeach Waters, Carrara, Mermaid Waters, Merrimac or Robina. That leaves room for bigger trees, and often for a truck, chipper or elevated platform to set up on the property.
Services in Clear Island Waters
Behind the gates and along the canals
Palm removal
Cocos palms taken down a section at a time, with the fronds and fruit stalks cleared from the garden.
Tree removal
Canal-edge trees lowered in pieces and carried back through the block to the truck.
Stump grinding
Ground out on the bigger blocks, where the grinder can often be wheeled straight in.
What it costs: tree removal cost, stump grinding cost, palm removal cost
Compared: removal, lopping or pruning, stump grinding or stump removal, council tree rules compared
How it works
Four steps, and the permit comes before the price
Nothing happens without a written quote you have agreed to.
- 1
Call or send the form
Include the suburb, your details and what needs to be done.
- 2
A contractor comes to see it
On site, not off a photo, because access and what sits underneath change the job.
- 3
The permit position is checked
Against the city's vegetation mapping and the koala controls, before a price is given.
- 4
Quoted in writing
The quote sets out the scope, the timber, the stump and the date. Then a date is booked.
Clear Island Waters questions
Canal-side timber, cocos palms and the paperbark park
How does the timber get out from a canal-side tree?
Through the property, or lifted out. The City Plan's lot data, which counts lots of at least 250 square metres, shows 701 freehold lots touching a canal in Clear Island Waters. On those the back yard faces the water, so a tree at the edge has no rear access for a truck, the wood goes out through the property or is lifted out, and nothing is allowed to drop into the canal.
Do the cocos palms need regular attention?
On private blocks, often. The City's Urban Forest records count 224 trees recorded as gum trees inside Clear Island Waters, along with 91 coastal she-oaks, 67 ficus and 66 cocos palms in its parks and on its verges, and trimming those is a request to the council. A cocos palm in your own garden drops heavy fronds and fruit stalks, so taking off dead fronds and seed there is a regular job.
What falls from the paperbarks in Little Robina Capes Park?
Papery bark and leaves mostly, and the odd limb. The City's 2019 vegetation mapping shows part of that park as dominated by broad-leaved paperbark open forest on alluvium, trees that grow in wet ground. For a home near the park, the work is clearing the overhang and the debris off the roof and out of the gutters, while the trees inside the park stay the council's.
