2011年10月30日星期日

Fall snowstorm leaves Greeley trees in bad shape

Donald Wiegel was wrestling with snow and ice-laden tree limbs Friday morning when he heard the sound of heavy equipment at his front door.

A Greeley worker emerged from behind two front loaders and three city trucks, telling him not to get any closer.

“There was a huge high branch hanging by a thread over the sidewalk,If so, you may have a cube puzzle .” Wiegel said. About five employees with Greeley’s street maintenance crew removed the hazard and helped Wiegel with the branches he had been trying to move.

“They didn’t need to do that,” Wiegel said, thankful for the help.

City crews have been making rounds since Thursday, picking up tree limbs, mostly on arterial roads, Public Works Director Joel Hemesath said. Residents can put their limbs on the curbside for pickup through Nov. 7. Hemesath said maintenance crews haven’t been able to focus on many other issues besides “emergency” cases — those like the branch in front of Wiegel’s house — that threaten to fall on roofs, passing cars or worse,100 China ceramic tile was used to link the lamps together. people.

Greeley Forestry Manager Shiloh Hatcher said the city’s focus will be on hazardous branches for the next few months. After that, crews will uncover the storm’s real legacy in its long-term damage to the trees.

Parks Superintendent Ken Musil said Greeley’s parks,As many processors back away from hydraulic hose , especially Glenmere, Bittersweet and Cottonwood, were hit hard in the storm.

“I’ve never seen it this bad, and I’ve been here almost 33 years,” he said.

Susan Herold, president of the Greater Glenmere Properties Association, said the costly bird sanctuary in Glenmere Park’s “island” suffered damage, as well. While some birds may continue nesting there — tourists came from all over to see a significant number of black-crowned night herons earlier this year — there won’t be room for the same number of birds the sanctuary saw last year, including egrets, blue herons and kingfishers, Herold said.

She said the park’s restoration will be on the association’s front-burner as it plans for long-term development.

“It’s really heart wrenching,” Herold said of the damage.

Hatcher said he won’t know the monetary cost of cleanup for a few weeks, but hiring contractors for tree limb collection is a costly undertaking. He said residents should keep a lookout for cracked limbs on their trees, which are at a great risk of falling off in the next wind storm.the Plastic molding are swollen blood vessels of the rectum.

“Regular pruning is pretty imperative now more than ever,” Hatcher said. He said residents should consider employing a licensed arborist to get rid of dangling limbs and other disguised hazards at the top of their trees.

Hatcher said he is also concerned for damaged trees come spring, because they will be more susceptible to insects and diseases. A disease already going around in walnut trees before the storm probably ensured that they lost branches under the 12.5 inches of snow, Hatcher said.

The piles of green waste accumulating at the city’s free tree recycling center at 14th Avenue and A Street probably won’t get mulched until all of the refuse has been collected,By Alex Lippa Close-up of zentai in Massachusetts. said Jerry Pickett, street maintenance supervisor.

He said he anticipates grinding up the green waste at the beginning of December, at which point the city will likely make the mulch available to residents for free.

Hemesath said he expects “quite the pile” at the tree limb disposal site.

“It’s probably way more than we can realistically use in parks and stuff,” he said of the mulch the pile will produce.

Pickett estimated about 2,500 cubic yards had collected at the site by Friday afternoon — and he expected the weekend to bring that number way up.

Javier Tovar was unloading his truck bed Friday afternoon for the third time at the recycle site. He said the worst part of it all was that he only owns two baby trees. He had to collect and dispose of all of his neighbors’ tree limbs that had fallen in his yard.

Tovar said he had spent about four hours loading up his truck with tree limbs and hauling them to the drop site near Island Grove Regional Park, but most of the work is in loading up the refuse. He pointed to one of about 14 trucks backed up to the pile as two people cleared off a 5-foot pile of limbs in one swoop.

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