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Resident urges Woodbury to address burdock infestation along Valley Creek
Summary
A Woodbury resident asked the City Council to adopt a policy and clear a heavy burdock infestation on a city-owned parcel that drains to Valley Creek, citing public-safety and ecological concerns and asking staff to review control options.
Jay Tophoven, a Woodbury resident, told the City Council on July 16 that a stretch of city-owned land near Afton Road and Busy Valley Creek is “infested with a plant called burdock.” He said the plants have burr-covered seed pods that cling to animals and clothing and that some individual plants are “as tall as I am.”
Tophoven said the strip of land he described lies between Steeple View and Afton Road near a pond and drainage way and that the parcel contains a well pumping station. He said city staff told him the plants along the northern edge of the pond are cut down…
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