The annual vegetation review with PG&E was completed last month. The good news was we had only two small Oak trees in PG&E’s right of way removed. A Australian Tea Leaf tree and a Toyon tree were planted as replacements.
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- Previous OCF Oak trees
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- Replacement Australian Tea Leaf tree
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- Replacement Toyon tree
Ten small volunteer trees (trees that nature planted) were removed. Five were encroaching into some of the PG&E towers, two were dead, and three were in PG&E’s right of way. PG&E requires the tower concrete supports be free of vegetation so they can be periodically inspected.
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- Pistache trees near tower
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- Their removal
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- 3 dead pine trees
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- Their removal
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- Mimosa tree near tower
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- Mimosa removed
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- Misc small volunteer trees
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- All removed from under the tower
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- Mimosa tree encroaching tower base
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- Mimosa removed
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- Coast Live Oak under lines
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- Oak removed
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- Volunteer Oak trees
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- Removed trees
As a good will gesture, PG&E provided these 3 additional trees and included the cost of watering them for 3 years.
These were planted in the western end of TJ Martin Park.
Here are maps showing the tree locations:
Our thanks to the Martin-Fontana Parks Association’s Negotiation Team of Dick Stevens, Mike Kalashian, Vince Piazzisi, Sunny Wagstaff, and Rich Zahner.
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