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A societal need, draining the dragon in all the parks.  

thax013 46M
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8/3/2019 8:08 pm

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8/4/2019 2:15 pm
A societal need, draining the dragon in all the parks.

I have been driving a huge water tanker truck, watering all city trees that have been planted within years throughout the city, especially in all the city parks. Easy work, but needed, as these first years the trees are trying establish their root structures. We have so many young trees, that we got approved daily overtime. So I have been working even more hours every day. Nice , but as I am pretty much constantly driving, I rarely have the opportunity get on my phone any real length of time.

Water water water, 3 5 thousand gallons a day, a normal day. I guess closer 5 7 thousand gallons these overtime days. Even in the rain. I guess we silly, watering trees in the rain. The rain never seems last long enough. Easy check, we shove a shovel into the ground, the rain soaks in the top half an inch. It takes time to soak in. Watering, we do not have time, so we deluge the tree, because we make dirt saucers when we planted them. The saucers hold the water around the tree, like a bowl.

From our efforts, a lot of our young trees are able to grow to maturity, my forestry crew needs trim or remove them.

Do you ever have do stuff that initially looks silly, but is very useful or needed?
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CleavageFan4U 67M
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8/4/2019 6:25 am

 You mean like having a blog here?

We were downtown recently and Mrs C commented on all the lovely planters along Douglas and wondered how they're kept watered.

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thax013 replies on 8/4/2019 2:14 pm:
True.

Those were created by a private grant. We replaced almost all of downtown Douglas with a state of the art support system. The system is comprised of hundreds of what looks like plastic flower planter pots. It is supposed to support more weight than full asphalt, while allowing space around them for various pipes, such as sewage, electrical, flower irrigation, etc. The irrigation goes to the tree pits and comes up into the flower bowls.

It was constructed around 2 years ago, when Douglas was completely tore up for a few months. Our department took a trip to watch the finishing up of one area, so we could have first hand experience of the latest in heavy-traffic urban forestry technology.

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