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Landscape professionals, contractors back bill to require healthy‑soil standards after construction
Summary
Landscape professionals and builders urged the committee to approve legislation establishing healthy soil performance guidelines for post‑construction landscapes, citing widespread practice of removing or degrading topsoil during development and the long‑term consequences for plant health and water retention.
Landscape contractors, certified professionals and industry representatives told the Joint Committee on Agriculture they support H.125/H.142/S.65 to establish healthy‑soil performance guidelines for construction and post‑development landscapes.
"Nearly in recent construction there would be things like rocks, asphalt, concrete, bricks... there's nothing there that resembles soil," said Bob Mann, senior…
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