New Age IVM: A GREENAPPROACH TO ROW MANAGEMENT

摘要

Alook at one project in Tennessee demonstrates how integrated vegetation management can reduce long-tenn environmental impacts on both the ROWs and surrounding environments. Columbia Gulf Transmission must maintain vegetation on its 180-foot wide natural gas transmission corridor through J. Percy Priest Recreation Area near Nashville, Tennessee, to provide safe and reliable natural gas energy services, and to meet FERC and DOT regulations for testing and leak inspections. This has been routinely accomplished with annual mowing of rights-of-way vegetation in mainland areas accessible to tractors, with exception being the 4.5 acre crossing of Pie Island.