Maintenance | Hamilton City Council

Streetscapes, sweeping and sumping

1. Vegetation management

There are plenty of gardens in Hamilton and someone needs to look after them. Our Streetscape Team works year-round making our city beautiful. The team sometimes needs traffic management while they work to be safe.

2. Sweeping – leaf fall

When the season changes from summer to autumn, it signals the start of our leaf fall work around the city. Connect Hamilton operates two or three sweeper trucks to clear leaves from stormwater catchpit tops and grates during the day. Staff also use blowers to clear leaves from footpaths. This work normally starts mid-April and runs through to July. The roads are monitored for leaf fall and staff make regular checks during the leaf fall season. The team also responds to customer service requests for street and footpath sweeps.

Find out more about Leaf fall here

3. Sumping - clearing grates and catchpits

In preparation for those winter months, or a wet summer, we aim to prevent flooding by conducting regular maintenance on the catchpits and grates by clearing the sumps and keeping them functioning.

Grass verges, berms and overhanging vegetation maintenance

Verges and berms
We expect owners or residents of urban properties to mow and maintain the berms (including natural stormwater treatment devices and/or plantings) outside their homes and businesses.

We will only mow berms where:

excessive size (exceeding 200m2 of grass) or steep contour makes it unreasonable for the single residential property owner to mow.
the property owner or resident doesn't carry out the mowing and a safety hazard (fire, vermin) is created.

The frequency of mowing will be at our discretion.

Contact us first if you want to plant in the berm area. See our Agrichemicals and spraying page if you want to go on our ‘no spray’ register (so we know to skip your street frontage).

Trees, shrubs, overhanging vegetation
Trees, shrubs and plants on your boundary or overhanging the road should be kept clear of the footpath (i.e. 2.4m above or more), so that others can use the path safely. In extreme cases, we can serve notice on property owners who consistently fail to do this or remove the vegetation and recover costs. We’ll trim street trees as needed.

Flooding

Connect Hamilton monitor hotspots around the city once or twice a week during autumn and early winter. These streets are either swept by trucks or have their drains cleared by our team as necessary.

If you see flooding report this on Antenno. Check out this year's hotspot lists here.