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City outlines Wisteria–Clearbrook drainage project; about 50 significant trees will be removed and replaced
Summary
Design and Construction staff said the Wisteria–Clearbrook drainage and stream-restoration project will start in summer 2026, remove roughly 50 significant trees within the construction corridor to restore channel hydraulics, and replace vegetation with live stakes, tubelings and ball-and-burlap trees after grading.
The Wilmington Tree Commission heard details of the Wisteria–Clearbrook drainage and stream-restoration project on a presentation by Robbie Baker, a project manager in the city’s Design and Construction department. Baker said the project is expected to start in summer 2026 and take about a year to complete, covering roughly 0.7 miles of corridor and focusing on bank stabilization, stream restoration, restoring maintenance access and replacing failing culverts and pipes to reduce localized flooding.
Baker told commissioners that staff identified “approximately 50 significant trees” within the project’s limits of disturbance that will need to come down, most of them magnolia species. He noted that magnolias are counted as "significant" at smaller diameters (an 8-inch…
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