Swan River Revegetation – Bank stabilisation

Sustainable Outdoors has recently been working for the City of Swan to revegetate several banks along the Swan River in Viveash. The importance of this work was to protect the bank from eroding away due to the increased boat traffic on the river. The bank was reshaped using extra soil to decrease its gradient and a layer of erosion matting and coir logs to prevent the sand from washing away. After the restructuring had been done it was heavily planted with wetland sedges.

On the upper land areas Melaleucas were planted with our specially design planting auger. As seen in the pictures below water collects around the base of each plant. The compaction down below is broken to approximately 30cm and any weeds or weed seeds on the surface get scrapped away.

Our planting machine can increase planting speed reducing labour costs, clear weeds with no chemicals, break compaction and create water holding wells around each plant. It is also very practical to use this in areas that have been mulched, sandy soils and even clay.