MULTI-YEAR MSAs.
WEEKLY-VERIFIED ROW.
Your vegetation MSA bidder pool collapsed. Two of three approved subs raised rates 30%. The third went out of business. Your storm-response vendor ghosted the last 48-hour SLA. Your ESC inspections "happened" but the documentation is a clipboard. ClearGround delivers ROW clearing, weekly RTK-verified inspections, and 48-hour storm-response mobilization across Texas — the MSA you can renew without renegotiating.
Your vegetation MSA bidder pool collapsed.
Two of three approved subs raised rates 30% last cycle. The third went out of business. You're paying premium for crews that don't deliver documented inspections, and your storm-response window is shrinking every quarter. Your O&M lead is one rate-card review away from explaining to procurement why the MSA renewal looks like a different scope at twice the cost.
ESC inspection failures triggered a TCEQ Notice of Violation.
Weekly inspections "happened" but the documentation is a smudged paper form from three weeks ago. 70% permanent vegetation coverage was never verified at the inspection cadence. Now you're explaining a Notice of Violation to a regional director who doesn't want explanations — and the NOV travels with the asset, not the contractor.
Storm-response SLA breached. Restoration was delayed.
48-hour mobilization was the contract. The crew didn't show. ROW clearance for restoration slipped by three days. Your customer-facing exposure made the news. Procurement is asking why the standby fee was paid on a contract that didn't deliver — and the renewal conversation is no longer a conversation, it's an audit.
RECURRING. DOCUMENTED.
RENEWABLE WITHOUT RENEGOTIATING.
From RTK pre-cycle baseline to weekly inspection to TCEQ-defensible audit trail — five recurring milestones, every one documented to a standard your compliance officer can defend without writing a memo. Same crew on Cycle 1 as Cycle 12.
Aerial mapping of the ROW or substation pad before mobilization. Vegetation density, encroachments, drainage, and access documented to ±0.5cm. Cycle pricing built from data, not memory.
FAE forestry head on CAT 299D3 XE. In-place mulching. No burn permits, no haul-off, no neighbor complaints. CAT 308E2 CR for tight substation access. Same crew, same cadence, every cycle.
Learn about forestry mulching →SWPPP authoring in-house. Silt fence, wattles, and BMP install per TCEQ MS4 standard. Hydroseeding to LCRA 70% permanent vegetation coverage spec. ESC compliance becomes a deliverable, not a fire drill.
Georeferenced drone inspection. BMPs verified weekly. 70% permanent vegetation coverage tracked to compliance. TCEQ-defensible photo log delivered to your compliance officer the same day.
See the technology →48-hour mobilization on a contracted SLA. Pre-staged crews on retainer. ROW clearance to restore service in the window your customer-facing communications already committed to. Same documentation chain on the surge work.
AT EVERY CYCLE OF YOUR MSA
GET A TCEQ-DEFENSIBLE RECORD
ROW BASELINE
RE-FLOWN EVERY CYCLE.
A Mavic 3 Enterprise RTK ortho captures the ROW at ±0.5cm before each cycle. Vegetation regrowth density, encroachments, drainage, and access mapped. Cycle scope priced from data — and your compliance officer gets a permanent record of what was on the ground at every interval.
IN-PLACE MULCHING.
MULCH BACK TO SOIL.
CAT 299D3 XE with FAE forestry head processes cedar, juniper, and mesquite in place. Mulch returns to the soil — no burn permits, no haul-off trucks running through landowner properties, no neighbor complaints. Substations get CAT 308E2 CR with hammer for tight pad access in the same mobilization.
ESC AUTHORED
IN-HOUSE.
SWPPP authoring in-house. Silt fence, wattles, hydroseeding to LCRA 70% permanent vegetation coverage standard. BMPs installed per TCEQ MS4 spec. Your compliance officer gets a defensible documentation package — not a clipboard your reviewer can flag.
WEEKLY GEOREFERENCED
INSPECTION.
Georeferenced drone inspection every week. BMP status verified. 70% permanent vegetation coverage tracked over time. Photo log delivered to your compliance officer the same day — searchable, time-stamped, GPS-tagged. The audit trail is the deliverable, not a backfilled binder.
STORM RESPONSE.
CREW PRE-STAGED.
48-hour mobilization on a contracted standby SLA. Pre-staged crews on retainer fee. ROW clearance for restoration begins in the window your customer-facing communications already committed to. Same georeferenced documentation chain on the surge work — no shortcut on the audit trail.
FIVE SCOPES.
ONE PHONE NUMBER.
Contracting ROW vegetation, ESC compliance, hydroseeding, weekly inspection, and storm-response standby across five different vendors means managing five accountability chains every time a TCEQ regional director calls. Bundle them under one ClearGround MSA and your O&M lead has one phone number across the full lifecycle.
ROW Vegetation MSA
Recurring transmission, distribution, substation, and pipeline ROW mulching. FAE attachment, no burn permits, no haul-off. Monthly or quarterly cycle.
Substation Site Clearing
Tight-access substation pad clearing, defensible space at infrastructure, encroachment removal. CAT 308E2 CR for substation footprint geometry.
ESC + Hydroseeding
SWPPP authored in-house. BMP install per TCEQ MS4. Hydroseeding to LCRA 70% permanent vegetation coverage standard.
Weekly RTK Inspection
Georeferenced drone inspection. Photo log, BMP status, 70% coverage tracking. Same-day delivery to compliance.
Storm Response Standby
48-hour mobilization on contracted SLA. Standby retainer. Pre-staged crews. ROW clearance to restore service. Surge documentation on same chain.
PREDICTABLE BASE.
SURGE ON DEMAND.
Most ROW vegetation subs are transactional — they bid the mile, they cut the mile, they leave. We structure as a multi-year MSA partner: predictable monthly base, contracted storm-response surge, and one documentation chain across both. Your renewal becomes a renewal — not a re-bid.
Accuracy
SLA Mobilization
Veg Coverage Std
Cycle Pricing
ESC compliance is a documentation game. We scan weekly, deliver georeferenced inspection reports, prove 70% permanent vegetation coverage with imagery your TCEQ inspector can verify, and mobilize within 48 hours when the storm event hits. ROW maintenance becomes a managed asset — not a fire drill your O&M team explains to procurement.
— ClearGround · The Ground, Verified.
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LET'S STRUCTURE
YOUR NEXT MSA.
Send us your scope, your service territory, and your storm-response SLA. We'll return an MSA-fit packet — COI, EMR, ESC procedures, weekly inspection samples, and references — within one business day. Predictable monthly base, contracted surge, documentation that defends the renewal.
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