Land & Water Services Ltd

For over 25 years Land & Water have provided specialist civil engineering services to a wide range of clients from both the public and private sectors and are now the UK’s largest inland dredging contractor providing innovative and environmentally friendly solutions for a range of dredging, disposal and civil engineering problems.

Land & Water have maintained its family values and hold health, safety and the environment at the core of all it does. Continual investment into resource and technology development means that we can offer a quality service in construction and maintenance of waterway and marine facilities. Land & Water Services specialises in water based, inland and coastal civil engineering, providing innovative and environmentally friendly solutions to lake, river, stream, marina, harbour and other water body issues. Our expertise is centred on the difficult working environment where land meets water and by thinking ‘outside the box’ to find innovative solutions where there seems to be none. Where there ‘is’ a solution there is often an alternative, offering value engineering or just better value for our clients.

Land & Water Plant have developed a unique range of long reach excavators and equipment specifically adapted to working in this niche market, supplying our contracting business as well as offering independent hire contracts.

Operating from a number of strategic offices around the UK we offer nationwide coverage with contracts typically ranging in size from £25,000 to £10 million. Land & Water Services are accredited to all UK ISO standards for Health and Safety, Environment and Quality Management.

Our Services:

Licences and Consenting
Surveys and Sampling
Marine and Inland Dredging Operations – Backhoe, Cutter Suction and Water Erosion
Dewatering
Innovative Disposal Schemes
Specialist Civil Engineering (hard & soft revetments/erosion control/piling)
Marina Construction
Specialist Earthworks
Specialist Plant Hire
Restoration
Vegetation Management
Wetlands and Reedbeds
SUDS
Bio-engineering soft revetments (Coir Roll products & supplies Terraqua ES Ltd)

Tideway Central - Vessel Relocation (2017)

London’s sewerage system was designed by Sir Joseph Bazalgette in the 1850s, for a population of four million people. Whilst the Victorian sewers are still in excellent working condition, they are struggling to cope with the demands of the city’s growth. Every year, tens of millions of tonnes of raw sewage pour into the River […]

Llyn Bran Discontinuance (2023)

Llyn Bran is located in Denbighshire, north-east Wales and was a natural lake that was raised in 1899 by a concrete dam. The reservoir was used to supply water to the North Wales Hospital in Denbigh. The hospital closed in 1995 and Llyn Bran has not been used for drinking water since. As part of […]