Mermaid Waters
Tree removal in Mermaid Waters
Tree removal, stump grinding and pruning in Mermaid Waters, on canal and lake frontages and the blocks between them.
Tree work in Mermaid Waters
Old grazing swamps under the canal lots
Before the canal estates were built, the land that became Mermaid Waters was flat grazing space interspersed with swamps, which drained into the Little Tallebudgera Creek. Built-up ground over old swamp holds water near the surface, so trees on it tend to send their roots out wide rather than deep, and a storm can blow them over more easily. A stump ground out near a canal or lake edge often sits in wet, soft ground.
Today the suburb is almost entirely canal estates and lakes. Counting lots of 250 square metres or more, the City Plan's property boundaries show 1,189 freehold lots touching a canal or lake in Mermaid Waters. On a block like that the water is behind the tree and no truck can get in from the back, so the wood is lowered in pieces and comes out beside the house or over the roof, with none of it allowed into the canal. That rigging adds time.
Services in Mermaid Waters
Waterfront lots, soft edges and shedding gums
Tree removal
Lowered piece by piece toward the house when a canal or lake sits behind the tree.
Stump grinding
Stumps at the water's edge ground out once the machine is set up on firm footing.
Tree pruning
Gum and cadaghi limbs cut back off the roof and away from the pool on your own block.
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.
Mermaid Waters questions
A stormwater lake, and the council's gums
Is work beside Lake Hugh Muntz any different?
Mainly in what reaches the water. Lake Hugh Muntz, about 17 hectares and built in the early 1980s, was designed as part of the area's stormwater drainage system, and it takes runoff from 16 stormwater pipes as well as ground flows. Sawdust, leaf litter and stump grindings from a job beside it are kept out of the lake and out of the drains that feed it.
Who deals with the water gums and cadaghis out the front?
The council, where they are street or park trees. Its Urban Forest records hold 365 trees filed as gum trees inside Mermaid Waters, along with 279 water gums, 266 tuckeroos and 202 cadaghis, and trimming one of those back from a roof or driveway is a request to the City. Tall gums and cadaghis on private blocks are yours to manage, and the bark, limbs and gumnuts they drop into gutters and pools are a common reason to call.
