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Residents, Shade Tree and Environmental commissioners urge action on road salt and tree losses; council introduces salt-storage and stormwater rules
Summary
Public commenters and commissioners told the council Jan. 28 that heavy salting and vandalism in the business district are damaging street trees; the council later introduced ordinances on privately owned salt storage and updated stormwater control rules for future public hearing.
Morristown — Members of the Morristown Shade Tree Commission and the town's Environmental Commission told the council Jan. 28 they are seeing excessive road-salt application and vandalism that threaten street trees in the business district, and they requested help from the administration and council.
Kristen Ace, chair of the Shade Tree Commission, said the commission has logged volunteer hours and planted trees across town, then described damage she said was caused by salt and by vandalism: "This amount of salt in a tree will kill it," Ace said, adding that salt had been ground into the flexi-pave in tree wells and was entering the root zone. She said flyers and outreach…
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