Downtown Trees

By 250 News

Late last week there was a story circulated suggesting trees downtown had to be replaced because they had been targets of vandalism.

Well that is only partly right.

Indeed there are trees that were damaged by vandals, while at the same time a large number of trees died as a result of a lack of water.

While we have been trying to get information from the City Parks dept. when asked to comment about what percentage of trees died from lack of moisture, an employee in the department turned the call over to the Manager and he has said he will call us back.

Basically we are told the problem came about when the water lines for irrigation to the effected trees did not have the water blown out of them last fall. This spring when the system was turned on, breaks developed in the lines and a percentage of the trees died from lack of water.  The summer was unusually dry so the trees couldn't even rely on the usual rainfall for moisture.

Each one of the trees that were planted on 3rd Ave cost just shy of $900 dollars.  The actual amount of loss due to the broken lines has not been made available at this point.  

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