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Contractor: decades of overgrowth require multi‑year hillside cleanup; council presses for faster maintenance
Summary
Merchants Landscaping and staff told the council some West Covina slopes and medians will take years to restore because irrigation systems are largely inoperable and sites have not seen sustained maintenance for decades. Council members directed staff to follow up and produce a timeline and funding report.
The West Covina City Council heard an extended presentation on the city’s hillside and median maintenance and the contractor’s progress and remaining scope, with multiple council members and residents urging faster work to reduce fire risk and repair damaged park infrastructure.
Patrick Healy, manager for Merchants Landscaping, told the council that crews have found “three decades of no maintenance” in some areas and that much of the hillside clearing required hand work rather than chainsaws because vegetation and vines were heavily entangled. “Overgrowth was more severe than I ever thought,” Healy said, explaining that some slopes will take longer to finish than originally scheduled.
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