Wednesday, April 17, 2013
An update on subdivision that are still undergoing first round of removals, new trees to be planted soon.
By now most of Oswego is familiar with the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB). The beetle showed itself in Oswego in September of 2010 and has continued to burrows itself into Ash trees throughout the village, killing them from the inside. The Village has been cutting down infected trees in all public places and parkways and well over 1,000 trees have already been removed. Sign up for our daily e-mail newsletter Follow the Oswego Patch on Facebook. Russ Garcia, Public Works Supervisor of Grounds Operations, said there are still several subdivisions that will be undergoing a first round of removal of ash trees. They are: Victoria Meadows, Farmington Lakes, River Run, Park Place, River Mist, Churchill, Ogden Falls, Kings Brook Crossing, Ashcroft Place…
Friday, October 19, 2012
Vote passed 5-1 in Tuesday night village board meeting.
The Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) may have struck Oswego's ash trees, but the village is already planning on how to make the parkways once more "aesthetically pleasing." The Village Board voted 5-1 in favor of purchasing 500 new trees at a cost of $102,300 from the Fields of Caton Farm Inc., located in Crest Hill. Village president Brian LeClercq suggested that half of the cost come from the village’s recycling fund, for which he thinks the tree replacement program is “the perfect program to use those funds,” for the current fiscal year. The village accepted the bid by Fields of Caton Farm, whose trees will be a minimum of 2.5” in diameter and come with a two-year warranty. Jerry Weaver, director of public works, said they have been taking …
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
The village continues to remove trees infected by the emerald ash borer.
For the last year, the village of Oswego has battled the emerald ash borer. The fight continues. Mark Runyon, assistant director of Public Works, addressed this issue at a village meeting with the Confederation of Homeowners Associations Monday night, saying the village steadily is working through the worst hit areas removing infected ash trees. “We’ll be working through the winter into 2013,” he said, adding the village would re-evaluate its contracts in 2013. Currently the village has separate contracts for stump removal and a contract for tree planting. Almost 1,000 trees have been cut down already this year. “It’s in all of the subdivisions,” Runyon said, although the hardest hit areas are Brookside, Lakeview, New Windcrest and …
Thursday, June 21, 2012
By the end of 2012, the village will have removed and replaced about 1,000 public property ash trees.
For years, Kendall County has been waging a war against the emerald ash borer. It’s a battle that will one day leave the county without any ash trees at all, believes Jerry Weaver, public works director with the village of Oswego. The ash borer is a small green beetle that, in its larva stage, burrows through the soft wood of ash trees and kills them from the inside. Ash borers lay eggs in the crevices of ash tree bark, and when the larvae hatch, they chew their way deep into the trees. The only recourse is to cut down infested trees, so that the ash borer doesn’t spread. And that’s what the village of Oswego is doing – by the end of the year, Weaver said, his staff will have cut down about 1,000 ash trees in the public right-of-way. They’…
Leslie Green
10:16 am on Thursday, April 18, 2013
I have to say our parkway ash was removed last fall and quickly replaced with a nice-sized tree of , as yet, unknown species. I guess we'll see what kind of leaves emerge to reveal its identity... more ›